 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 pages
...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...low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots! triumph o'er your foe! Greece! change thy lords, thy state is still the same;... | |
 | 700 pages
...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...Muscovite redress ye? no! True, they may lay your proud (lcspo:Iers low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots! triumph o'er your... | |
 | 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
...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 must strike th« blow ? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought ? Will Gaul or Muicevite redress ye. ?... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 506 pages
...Trembling beneath the scourge of Turkish hand, From birth till death enslav'd; in word, in deed unmann'd. •LXXV. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would...low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots ! triumph o'er your foe ! Greece ! change thy lords, thy state is still the same... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 510 pages
...Trembling beneath the scourge of Turkish hand, From birth till death enslav'd; in word, in deed unmann'd. LXXV. Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be...low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots ! triumph o'er your foe ! Greece ! change thy lords, thy state is still the same... | |
 | Anonymous - 1812 - 512 pages
...till death enslav'd ; in word, in deed unmanned. LXXV. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not i Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their...low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots ! triumph o'er your foe ! Greece ! change thy lords, thy state is still the same... | |
 | 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 - 322 pages
...With thy unquenched beam, lost Liberty ! And many dream withal the hour is nigh That gives them hack their fathers' heritage : For foreign arms and aid...low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots ! triumph o'er your foe! Greece ! change thy lords, thy state is still the same... | |
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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... 
