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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. Hereditary bondsman ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike...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 - 1859 - 914 pages
...«olely dare encounter hostile rage, [page. Or tear their name denied from Slavery's mournful LXXVL Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blov. ? Dr their right arms the conquest must be wrought ? т* Ш Gaul or Muscovite redress ye... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. LXXVL 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... | |
| Simon Kerl - English language - 1861 - 372 pages
...may stay." "I spoke with the man himself." " I onoe felt a little inclined to marry her myself." " Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?"—Campbett. ? 71. These pronouns are further used, when that which is denoted by the subject... | |
| Henry Hegart Breen - Poetry - 1862 - 164 pages
...which served as the text for his popular harangues, only prove his utter disregard of sincerity — "Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ? " These words, so pregnant with meaning in the mouth of Byron, were reduced to mere cant... | |
| Georg Gottfried Gervinus - Europe - 1862 - 584 pages
...nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, or tear their name defiled from savery's mournful page. — Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ! — Will Gaul or Moscovite redress you ? No ! 10) 3m ®iaut nennt er fíe : — stained... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...Repeal meetings of 1844 is found in the second canto; it is an invocation to the modern Greeks : — " Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ? " At the ball given in Brussels on the night before the advance on Waterloo, we read that... | |
| English periodicals - 1923 - 1004 pages
...consistently held ? Let us leave Russia to work out her own salvation. As Byron said to another nation : Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ? Would a determined national effort find the revolutionary Government and its Red Army such... | |
| Thomas Clarke Luby - Catholic emancipation - 1880 - 560 pages
...published an address to the Catholics of Ireland. It begins with his favourite quotatkm from Byron — 'Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?" He admits that, the year before, he and others had come to the conclusion that it was useless... | |
| Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 760 pages
...schemes which came to naught. William R. Benet, ed., The Reader's Encyclopedia (New York, 1948), 719. 17. "Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?" Byron, Childe Harold, c. II, Ixxvi. 18. A corruption of "Hang out our banners on the outward... | |
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