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" Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few. "
Byron - Page 123
by John Nichol - 1902 - 223 pages
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We Shall be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World

Melvyn Dubofsky - 2000 - 316 pages
...to the Industrial Worker from a Louisiana jail, the organizer EF Doree was moved to poetry: "Arise like lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number....Shake your chains to earth like dew / Which in sleep have failed on You. / Ye are many, they are few." "We are many," proclaimed Solidarity. "We are resourceful;...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain

Kenneth O. Morgan - 2000 - 724 pages
...depression, rise decisively against it. He would have echoed Shelley's challenge: Rise like Lions afrer slumber In unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many— they are few. In the 1840s events in Ireland seemed to bring the revolution...
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Die Wende Von Der Aufklärung Zur Romantik 1760-1820: Epoche Im Überblick

Horst Albert Glaser, György Mihály Vajda - 2000 - 784 pages
...erwachende Löwen als Sinnbilder der Kraft und Morgentau als Symbol des Anfangs — zum Widerstand auf: Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many — they are few.24 Die zum politischen Slogan avancierte Schlussformel >Ihr...
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The Oxford History of Britain

Kenneth O. Morgan - 2001 - 804 pages
...the next economic depression, rise decisively against it. He would have echoed Shelley's challenge: Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few. In the 1840s events in Ireland seemed to bring the...
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Mary Shelley

Miranda Seymour - 2000 - 722 pages
...of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty Mother, Hopes of her, and one another; 'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number,...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many — they are few.'15 Reading these lines makes it hard to understand why...
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The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy

Ian Balfour - 2002 - 372 pages
...Like Oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again-again-again'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number—...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few." 47 The poet seems to act merely as the medium for words...
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We are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism

Notes from Nowhere (Organization) - 2003 - 530 pages
...the famous lines to Manchester's working poor after troops fired on them in the Peterloo massacre: "Rise, like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable...chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fall'n on you! Ye are many, and they are few." In reality, the system is more like a huge wedding cake than a...
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Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively

Stuart Rees - 2003 - 308 pages
...be united in nonviolent protest, they may experience solidarity and undermine the force of armies. "Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number...Shake your chains to Earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few. . . . "Stand ye calm and resolute, Like a forest close...
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The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

Marc Redfield - 2003 - 272 pages
...Like oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again—again—again— "Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number—...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few." (360-72) Thus the poem ends, far distant from the sleeper...
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The Twentieth Century: A People's History

Howard Zinn - 2009 - 516 pages
...Shirt," and another . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy." . . . "Rise like lions after slumher In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth, like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many, they are few!" The conditions in the factories did not change much....
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