 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1864 - 466 pages
...prisoners of state, were confined. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. BYRON. Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art^ For there...heart, — The heart which love of thee alone can bind. 1. THEY chained us each to a column stone, And we were three, — yet each alone ; "We could not move... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...Necrology, from the month of July l570 to lS7l. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETEBNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. t. : In lion ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - 1866 - 290 pages
...and example. * BOOK SECOND. " Plus in carcere spiritus acquirit, quam caro amittit." Tertullian. " Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in...alone can bind : And when thy sons to fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 722 pages
...in that respect, especially considering GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD BYRON. I. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned, — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - 1870 - 964 pages
...ring in the pillar may still be seen. " Eternal spirit of the chalnless mind ! Brightest in dangerous liberty thou art, For there thy habitation is the...The heart, which love of thee alone can bind ; And where thy sons to fetter* are consigned— To fetter*, and the damp vault's dayles* gloom, Their country... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 372 pages
...The heart which love of thee alone can bind ;- ' And when thy sons to fetters are consigned, — (L-- To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, _^And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...CHILLÓN. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind I Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thon tbce alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are conslgn'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's... | |
 | Edward Brown (of Brooklyn, N.Y.) - 1868 - 22 pages
...better estimate of the religions Liberty they so largely aided to purchase for us and for the world. " Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind, Brightest in...thy habitation is the heart, The heart which love of thce atone can bind. And when thy sons to fetters are confined, To fetters and the damp vault's dayleas... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - 1868 - 806 pages
...fottoix are com<tpned — • To fcttcr¡s ami thu damp vivult'H tlayloM gloom, 609 CHILLÓN. BASLL Their country conquers with their martyrdom. And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Cbilloiil thy prison i.-ia holy pliicc, And thy t-ad Hour an altar; for 'twas trod Tntil hin very ctt'jM... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth. LIBERTY. Eternal spirit of the chainless Mind ! Brightest in...consign'd, — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloonfj Their country conquers yr\rt\ ftwAt maitviAom, And Freedom's fame finds -wings on every BYRON.... | |
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless... 
