 The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion ! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain ! O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But...  The Quarterly review - Page 321834Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1803 - 440 pages
...T'infnlt the flnineof Liberty with fpoils , From freemen torn ! to tempt and to betray! v. The fenfual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion ! In mad gsme They break their manacles, and wear the name Of Freedom graven on an heavier chain. VOL. vi. p... | |
 | 1812 - 656 pages
...prey ; To insult the shrine of liberty with spoils From freemen torn ; to tempt and to betray ! V. The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...nor ever Didst breathe thy soul in forms of human pow*r. Alike from all, however they praise thee, (Nor pray'r nor boastful name delays thee,) Alike... | |
 | 1812 - 654 pages
...prey ; To insult the shrine of liberty with spoils From freemen torn ; to tempt and to betray ! V. The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...Have I pursued thee many a weary hour: But thou nor swell's! the victor's strain, nor ever Didst breathe thy soul in forms of human pow'r. Alike from all,... | |
 | 1812 - 664 pages
...prey ; To insult the shrine of liberty with spoils From freemen torn ; to tempt and to betray ! V. The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...wear the name Of freedom graven on a heavier chain 1 O Liberty f with profitless endeavour Have 1 pursued thec many a weary hour : But thou nor swell'st... | |
 | 1834 - 918 pages
...murderous prey ; To insult the shrine of Liberty with spoils From freemen torn ; to tempt and to betray ? " The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...But thou nor swell'st the victor's strain, nor ever Didat breathe thy soul in forms of human power. Alike from all, howe'er they praise thee, (Nor prayer,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 312 pages
...with regard to the disputes and the parties disputant. With more than poelic feeling I exclaimed : " The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion ! In mad game They break their manacles, to wear the name Of freedom, graven on an heavier chain. O liberty ! with profitless... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...foot with chains heavier than Louis can afford to lend, or his cousin Ferdinand venture to impose. The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion. — If Spain wish to be free, let her first effort be to throw off '•the fetters which she has forged... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...betray? The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slave* by their own compulsion! In mad game They bunt ; thrc, many a weary hour; Bat I!M. ii nor iwellst the victor'* strain, nor ever Didst breathe thy soul... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 400 pages
...murderous prey; To insult the shrine of Liberty with spoils From freemen torn ; to tempt and to betray ? The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...hour ; But thou nor swell'st the victor's strain, nor evei Didst breathe thy soul in forms of human power. Alike from all, howe'er they praise thee, (Not... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...murderous prey; To insult the shrine of Liberty with spoils From freemen torn; to tempt and lo betray? .-amlcring by; Or if there hnrn'd within the dying...the free, we come! Armies of the eternal, ye who str thce, many a weary hour; But thou nor swell's! the victor's strain, nor ever Didst breathe thy soul... | |
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