Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no! The Quarterly Review - Page 188edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 1012 pages
...invaders on their soil ; but I tell you it is not on foreign aid that you ought exclusively to rely: ' Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not. Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?i" Was this language to be used by a subject who had sworn allegiance to Her Majesty ? or... | |
| 700 pages
...sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defil'd from Slavery's mournful page. Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free...Muscovite redress ye? no! True, they may lay your proud (lcspo:Iers low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots! triumph o'er your... | |
| Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...that gallant spirit shall resume, Leap fiom Kurjta'.s banks, and call thee from the tomb f p. 101. * Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow > " " When riseth Lacedemon's hardihood, When Thebes £paminondas rears again, When AUien's... | |
| English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name, defil'd from Slavery's mournful page. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike th« blow ? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought ? Will Gaul or Muicevite redress ye. ?... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage. Or tear their name defil'd from Slavery's mournful page. LXXV. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would...low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. i . LXXVI. When riseth Lacedemon's hardihood, When Thebes Epaminondas rears again, When Athens' children... | |
| Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...that gallant spirit shall resume, Leap from Eurota's banks, and call thee from the tomb?" p. 101, " Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?" " When riseth Lacedemon's hardihood, When Thebes Epaminondas rears again, When Athens' children... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...hostile rage, Or tear their namedefil'dfrom Slavery's mournful page. Canto II. PILGRIMAGE. 107 LXXVI. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free...themselves must strike the blow ? By their right arms the eonquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Museovite redress ye ? no ! True, they may lay your proud despoilers... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 384 pages
...solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. : i. LXXVI. Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free...their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Ganl or Muscovite redress ye? no! True, they may lay your proud despoilers low, But not for you will... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. LXX.VI. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free...Muscovite redress ye? no ! True, they may lay your proud despeilers low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots ! triumph o'er your... | |
| André Vieusseux - Italy - 1821 - 296 pages
...modern poet, addressed to the Greeks, but equally applicable to the Italians : — . ' i • • " Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free...be wrought ? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? no ! ****** Greece, change thy lords, thy state is still the same ; Thy glorious days are o'er, but not... | |
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