 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...delivery. While deliberate was influenced by liberate, it is from L de-libra: scales; see lithra. Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...Liberty! Thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart. -Byron, Sonnet on Chillón (1816) The Swiss François de Bonnivard was imprisoned in Chillón for his... | |
 | Horst Albert Glaser, György Mihály Vajda - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 784 pages
...ofChillon (1816): Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou an! For these thy habitation is the heart The heart which love of thee alone can bind, [...]25 Fast gleichzeitig schrieb er sein erstes Drama Manfred (1834 UA), beeindruckt von Goethes Faust,... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - English poetry - 1999 - 306 pages
...Laura had been Petrarch's wife, / He would have written sonnets all his life?" 299. On Chillon Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...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... | |
 | Richard W. Bailey - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 324 pages
...the sounet is "Liberty," but its opening lines had a more particular meaning for Rulloff: "Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! / Brightest in dungeons,...thou art, / For there thy habitation is the heart." However highly colored Rulloff s literary taste. it is no surprise that on entering the brutal regime... | |
 | Suzanne Enoch - Fiction - 2009 - 382 pages
...goes. Agreed?" Matthew pulled the cigar from his mouth and saluted. "Aye, aye, Captain." Chapter 11 Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art; For there thy habitation is the heart. —Lord Byron, "Sonnet to Chillon' Saint paced the length of the foyer. He should have given her five... | |
 | Samuel A. Southworth - History - 2009 - 246 pages
...eventual death in the meanest of conditions. Lord Byron's poem "Sonnet on Chillon," which begins: "Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! / Brightest in dungeons,...thou art, / For there thy habitation is the heart," wonderfully captures the soulcrushing aspect of such lone confinement, and the daily struggle to overcome... | |
 | Drummond Bone - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 340 pages
...numinous and transhistorical resonance. Witness the sonnet on The Prisoner of Chillon (1816): Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart These words are not specific merely to the case of one political prisoner, but apply to all the oppressed... | |
 | Kieran Dolin - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 26 pages
...Coleridge, or historical precursors like Francois de Bonnivard in Byron's 'Sonnet on Chillon': Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...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 feet... | |
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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... 
