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" What! have you let the false enchanter scape? O ye mistook; ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless. "
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 71
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840
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Behind the Scenes, Volume 1

Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - English fiction - 1854 - 540 pages
...them that the late Ministry only thought of ruling, but not of righting, the people ; that your aim is to reverse the rod, to spell the charm backward, to break the fetters which bound a hoodwinked people to the Juggernaut car of a corrupt governy ment. Such is, and...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the ...

John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...enchanter 'scape? Oh! ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast J without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed, and motionless: Yet stay, be not disturbed; now I bethink me, Some other means...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...enchanter 'scape ? O ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast ; without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed, and motionless : Yet stay, be not disturbed ; now I bethink me, Some other...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...enchanter 'scape? 0, ye mistook ; ye should have snatch'd his wund,1 el5 And bound him fast : without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power. We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fix'd, and motionless : Yet stay ; be not disturbed ; now I bethink me, wo Some other...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...the rod reversed, We cannot free the lady that sits here And backward mutters of dissevering power, Bound in strong fetters fixed and motionless." To...bound a stupefied people to the seat of enchantment, T was the noble aim of Milton, jyo this all ins ptiKc conductwas directed- For this he joined the Presbyterians—for...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...Without the rod reversed, And backward mutiere of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady that sil? here Bound in strong fetters fixed and motionless.*'...the charm backward, to break the ties which bound a stupefled people to the seat of enchantment, was the noble aim of Milton. To this all his public conduct...
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Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Implant in ...

John Ayrton Paris - Amusements - 1857 - 632 pages
...enchanter 'scape ? 0, ye mistook ; ye should have snatch'd his Wand, And bound him fast ; without his Rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady." Prospero, on abjuring his power, — " breaks his Staff, And buries it in certain fathoms of the earth."*...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...power, We cannot free lite lady that Fit» hi-re Bound in elrone fetter» tiled and molionle»«." al in England he found himself an object of general interest and admiration. The stupe"ied people to the seat of enchantment, was the noble aim of Milton. To this all his public conduct...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...have thought of disenchanting. " Oh, ye mistook! Ye should hare snatched his wand And bound him fast. Without the rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady that site here Bound in strong fetters fixed and motionless." To reverse the rod, to spell the charm backward,...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...they should have thought of disenchanting. ** Oh, ye mistook ! Yon should have snatched the wand ! Without the rod reversed. And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady thnt Bit« here Bound in strong fetters filed and motionless." To reverse the rod, to spell the charm...
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