 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 ! True, they may lay your proud despoilers low, But not for you will freedom's...  The works of ... lord Byron - Page 101by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 324 pages
...For foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh, i /• Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, : : LXXV. LXxVi: Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would...their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no! ' True, they may lay your proud despoilers low^ '''^ But not for... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 322 pages
...solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defil'd from Slavery's mournful page. LXXV. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free...their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no! True, they may lay your proud despoilers low, But not for you will... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 248 pages
...Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. . LXXVI. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would...their right arms the conquest must be wrought ? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? no ! True, they may lay your proud despoilers low, But not for you will... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 250 pages
...sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. LXXVI. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would...their right arms the conquest must be wrought ? Will Gaul 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
...sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. LXX.VI. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would...their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no ! True, they may lay your proud despeilers low, But not for you will... | |
 | 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...their right arms the conquest must be wrought ? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? no ! ****** Greece, change thy lords, thy state is still the same ;... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 588 pages
...expressly for the Duchess of York, called hastily for his " Mammy " — Daniel O'Connell exclaimed — " Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?" General Washington whistled "Yankee Doodle," and Joseph Hume commenced upon his fingers... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. LXXVI. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would...their right arms the conquest must be wrought Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? no ! True, they may lay your proud despoilers low, But not for you will... | |
 | Ireland - 1822 - 136 pages
...annual address to the Catholics of Ireland with the following truly loyal and conciliatory lines: " Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, " Who would be free, themselves must strike the Wow.'' After this, who can doubt that the absence of so many of our nobility and gentry has been,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...encounter hostile rage, ; Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. Hereditary bondmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ? By their right arm the conquest must be wrought : — Will Gaul, or Muscovite, redress ye? — No! True, they may... | |
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