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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... "
The works of ... lord Byron - Page 2
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818
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The Select Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Containing The Corsair, Lara, The ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 pages
...is a holy place , To fetters , and the damp vault's dayless gloom, And thy sad floor an altar—for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn , as if thy cold pavement were a sod , By Bounivord '. —May none those marks efface? For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON....
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The continent in 1835, sketches in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and ...

John Hoppus - 1836 - 770 pages
...round about, the wave enthrals; A double dungeon, wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an ahar — for 'twas trod Until his very steps have left a trace Worn as if thy cold pavement were a...
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The Continent in 1835: Sketches in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland ..., Volume 2

John Hoppus - 1836 - 348 pages
...about, the wave enthrals; A double dungeon, wall and wave Have made—and like a living grave. • Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar—for 'twas trod Until his very steps have left a trace Worn as if thy cold pavement were a sod,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 10

1837 - 594 pages
...walls of the famous Castle of Chillon, where Bonnivard, Byron's ' Prisoner,' lingered in chains : ' Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad...efface, For they appeal from tyranny to God !' The castle is at the foot of the hill, on the very margin of the lake, and seems almost to rise out of...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 10

1837 - 578 pages
...walls of the famous Castle of Chillon, where Bonnivard, Byron's ' Prisoner,' lingered in chains : ' Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad...marks efface, For they appeal from tyranny to God !' 388 Clareus — Lousanne — Moral. [November, ture's fairest works. We passed Clarens, too, the...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 10

1837 - 580 pages
...walls of the famous Castle of Chillon, where Bounivard, Byron's ' Prisoner,' lingered in chains : ' Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad...were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks eflace, For they appeal from tyranny to God !' ture's fairest works. We passed Clareas, too, the '...
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The Continent in 1835: Sketches in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and ...

John Hoppus - 1837 - 372 pages
...wave Have made— and like a living grave. Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad fljor an altar- -for 'twas trod ' Until his very steps have...as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard!' , This part of the lake of Geneva has acquired additional celebrity by its being identified with the...
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The complete works of lord Byron, repr. from the last London ed ..., Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillón! thy prison is a holy place. And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, (I) AVlieti this poem wan composed, I waa not sufficiently aware of the history of ßonnivard, or I...
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The complete works of lord Byron, repr. from the last London ed ..., Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...'ibre " ri'tamft : '" r';P"bHque s'empressa lui témoigner sa reconnaissance, et de le dédommager des Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were : sod, By Bonnivard! — May none those marluefbet; For they appeal from tyranny to God. THE PRISONER...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 5

1839 - 726 pages
...child, I should wish to be in the place of that unfortunate ladv." A VISIT TO THE CHATEAU OF CHILLON. " Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar." LEAVING Geneva in the steamer at eight o'clock in the morning, I arrived at Vevay at four o'clock on...
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