 | Edmund Burke - 1849 - 1012 pages
...invaders on their soil ; but I tell you it is not on foreign aid that you ought exclusively to rely: ' Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not. Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?i" Was this language to be used by a subject who had sworn allegiance to Her Majesty ? or... | |
 | 700 pages
...lost Liberty! And many dream withal the hour is nigh That gives them back their fathers' heritage: For foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defil'd from Slavery's mournful page. Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free themselves... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 pages
...lost Liberty! And many dream withal the hour is nigh That gives them back their fathers' heritage: For foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defil'd from Slavery's mournful page. Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free themselves... | |
 | 1813 - 996 pages
...that gallant spirit shall resume, Leap fiom Kurjta'.s banks, and call thee from the tomb f p. 101. * Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow > " " When riseth Lacedemon's hardihood, When Thebes £paminondas rears again, When AUien's... | |
 | 1812 - 1020 pages
...lost Libert; ! And many dream withal the hour is nigh That gives them back their fathers' heritage : For foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name, defil'd from Slavery's mournful page. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1812 - 314 pages
...lost Liberty ! And many dream withal the hour is nigh That gives them back their fathers' heritage : For foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh, Nor 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 themselves... | |
 | 1813 - 906 pages
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 | 1813 - 486 pages
...that gallant spirit shall resume, Leap from Eurota's banks, and call thee from the tomb?" p. 101, " Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?" " When riseth Lacedemon's hardihood, When Thebes Epaminondas rears again, When Athens' children... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...hostile rage, Or tear their namedefil'dfrom Slavery's mournful page. Canto II. PILGRIMAGE. 107 LXXVI. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free...themselves must strike the blow ? By their right arms the eonquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Museovite redress ye ? no ! True, they may lay your proud despoilers... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 334 pages
...lost Liberty ! And many dream withal the hour is nigh That gives them back their fathers' heritage : For foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear their name defil'd from Slavery's mournful page. LXXV1. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves... | |
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Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? 
