 | John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pagina’s
...altar; for 'twas trod Until his very steps have left a trace Wern, as if thy cold pavement were a soil, By Bonnivard ! May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to Coil." At length, in 1536, the Swiss wrested the Pays de Vaud from the hands of Charles V . of Savoy.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1815 - 324 pagina’s
...gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. B 2 Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. A FABLE. I. My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 88 pagina’s
...gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. s % Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. A FABI.E. I. MY hair is grey, but not with years, , Nor grew it white In a... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pagina’s
...Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. VOL. VI. B Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLQN. A FABLE. 1. MY hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 210 pagina’s
...Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. VOL. VI. B Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. A FABLE. I. MY hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 pagina’s
...altar—for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn as if tby cold pavement were a sod. Bonnivard! May none those marks efface, For they appeal from tyranny to God. 1 ' Emerging from the dungeons of Chillon, we observed upon the lake, not many hundred yards from the... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pagina’s
...— for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn as if thy cold pavement were a sod. Bonnivard ! May none those marks efface, For they appeal from tyranny to God." Emerging from the dungeons of Chillon, we observed upon the lake, not many hundred yards from the shore,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pagina’s
...can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned— To fetters, and the damp vault's day less gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. .1. hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night,1... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 294 pagina’s
...Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! (I) —May none those marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. I. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pagina’s
...in honour of whom Lord Byron wrote this sonnet, prefixed to the poem of the prisoner of Chillon : " Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in...however, which is uncommonly well imagined, and most affectingly told, pourtrays just such an event as may well be supposed to have happened in those turbulent... | |
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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 an altar; for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left... 
