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 71by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840Full view - About this book
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...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 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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| 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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...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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...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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