...following passage from Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Hereditary Bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their...be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? No! See Frederick Douglass Papers, ser. 1 , vol. 2:89, vol. 3:202, 43 1 , 566. 32. Stephen B. Oates, To...

...counseled the Greeks as to how they can regenerate themselves: Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their...lords, thy state is still the same; Thy glorious day is over, but not thine years of shame. (11.76.720-28) Byron assumed that the modern Greek view of liberation...

...Turkish hand, From birth to death enslaved; in word, in deed, unmanned.1 ... know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow By their right...must be wrought Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? No!4 Byron arrived in Venice in 1816, and took up the study of the Armenian language, feeling that...

...Leap from Eurota's banks, and call thee from the tomb ? Hereditary bondmen ! know ye not, Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ? By their...altars flame. Shades of the Helots ! triumph o'er your foes 1 Greece ! change thy lords, thy state is still the same ; Thy glorious day is o'er, but not thine...

...Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their...Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots! triumph o'er thy foe! Greece! change thy lords, thy state is still the same; Thy glorious day is o'er, but not thine...

...their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. LXXVI Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not 720 Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ? By their...low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. 725 Shades of the Helots ! triumph o'er your foe ! Greece ! change thy lords, thy state is still the...

...tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, Who would el becometh dumb, The rest complain of eares despoil ers low, But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots ! triumph o'er your...

...Byron's oft-quoted lines in Childe Harold, c. ii. s. 76 — " Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ! By their right arms the conquest must be wrought ! " and one of Wordsworth's Sonnets dedicated to Liberty, in which these lines occur : — "'Tis well...

...the habit, in his speeches, of quoting Byron's lines : "Hereditary bondmen ! know ye not \Vho would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought," etc. He knew that the union of Ireland and England, somewhat akin to that of the Siamese twins, was,...