 | Juvenile gleaner - 1840 - 230 pages
...life. Bless your good Excellency ! CASTLE OF CHILLON, ON THE LAKE OF GENEVA. CHI r. LOS! thy prison i« a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar ; for 'twas trod, Until bis very steps bave left a trace, Worn as if the cold pavement were a sod, By Botmivard I May none... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillón! arrives, who` 4 Ч was trod, (1) When this poem we* composed, 1 was not sufficiently aware of the history of Bonnivard,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1841 - 840 pages
...trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Vom, as if thy cold pavement was a sod, By Bonnivard t — May none those marks efface. For they appeal from tyranny to God. B v BON. On «he 4th of April, 1823, during the Tavmton assizes, intense curiosity was excited by the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 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...a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, ! When this poem wae composed, I was not sufficiently aware of the history of Bonnivard, or I should... | |
 | John Murray - 1842 - 482 pages
...the sonnet on Bonnivard, from which the following lines are taken : — " Chillón ! thy prison is я holy place, And thy sad floor an altar; for 'twas...Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if the cold pavement were a «od, By Bonnivard ! May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny... | |
 | Bailly de la Londe - 1842 - 636 pages
...Byron, qui dans un de ses poèmes salue cette prison comme un lieu sacré (a holy place} : Chilien ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar. For't was trod, Until his very steps hâve left-a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...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 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...by the action of footsteps. No poetic license has therefore been taken in the forcible lines — " Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad...cold pavement were a sod — By Bonnivard ! May none these marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God I" The pillar thus connected with Bonnivard's... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon : thy pi i mi i> a holy place. And thy sad floor an altar— for 'twas trod, Until his very stepa have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavements were a tod, By Bonnivard ! — may none those... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...Chillon," but afterward he composed that fine sonnet which will render the captive's name immortal. " Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, , And thy sad...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God." Bonnivard was a scholar, as well as a hero; and in his views of religious, as well as political freedom,... | |
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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... 
