Or is't that Matter nobler Mind o'erpow'rs, Which boasts her native Liberty in vain, 380 In Mortal Fetters and a Slavish Chain?
Rescue once more thy Trojans sacred Line } From slavish Chains, so shall thy Temples shine } With Stars, and all Elysium shall be thine.
We may compel the body to carry out an order, the fingers to perform a task; but this is mere slavish compliance.
The one was ruled with iron rods; he was made to obey with a rigidity of compliance and a severity of treatment in case of failure which made obedience a slavish duty, and he was taught besides that he was a child of Satan and an heir of hell.
Instead of twenty hackneyed and slavish copies of one pattern, we have twenty free, individual productions, each the expression of the child's inmost personal thought.
The senses, ready to become so slavishin adulation and delight, are at the beginning more exacting than the judgement, more imperious than the will.
At any rate, it rescues Count Ammiani from an expedition to Rome, and his slavishdevotion to that priest-hating man whom he calls, or called, his Chief.
He was perfectlyslavish to her, and might be trusted to advance more.
It will continue to increase until it eradicates cowardice and the slavish mind; and despair re-awakens the courage that was lost.
But to think of the living God not as our father, but as one who has condescended greatly, being nowise, in his own willed grandeur of righteous nature, bound to do as he has done, is killing to all but a slavish devotion.
But the ideas that poor slavish souls breed concerning this glory the moment the darkness begins to disperse, is quite another thing.
Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus cause us to refuse the true interpretation, but we are none the less bound to refuse and wait for more light.
In a thousand ways will Self delude itself, in a thousand ways befool its own slavish being.
Fear is the parent of cruelty—and in religion, as in character, the slavish spirit is ever the most unfeeling.
And then they set themselves to a renewed precision, a more slavish punctiliousness than before.
For slavishmen who bend beneath A despot yoke, yet dare not Pronounce the will whose very breath Would rend its links--WE CARE NOT.
Nevertheless, he is not a slavish copyist of this folk-poetry.
They were slavish worshipers of French influences.
The fear of the Lord lies at the bottom of all goodness that will last through the tear and wear of wedded life, and of all domestic diligence which is not mere sordid selfishness or slavish toil.
My will and my daughter's is, that our desponds and slavish fears be by no man ever received, from the day of our departure, forever; for I know that after my death they will offer themselves to others.
This first great revolt against the slavish authority of the schools had little immediate effect, largely on account of the personal vagaries of the reformer--but it made men think.
The schools bowed in humble, slavish submission to Galen and Hippocrates, taking everything from them but their spirit and there was no advance in our knowledge of the structure or function of the body.
Nevertheless, it cannot be said that his conservative formal structure was but a slavish imitation of theirs.
Thou wert not then really the father of me, nor did she, who says she bore me, and is called my mother, bear me; but born of slavish blood I was secretly put under the breast of thy wife.
The butterfly the ancient Grecians made The soul's fair emblem, and its only name-- But of the soul, escaped the slavish trade Of earthly life!
The imagination whose pictures they drew will quench all her lustre for the deserters that devote themselves to the slavish passions of the hour.
Brahmanism first set the example as originators of thisslavish abomination.
These are some of the remnants in the decline of old India after thousands of years of Brahman rule and slavish domination of the people to preserve their own exclusive caste and exploitation.
And Satan binds our captive minds Fast in his slavish chains.
He feeds our hopes with airy dreams, Or kills with slavish fear; And holds us still in wide extremes, Presumption, or despair.
But Rodolph, who feared nothing so much as remaining in this slavishdependence on the Estates, waited not for a warlike issue, but hastened to effect a reconciliation with his brother by more peaceable means.
Yet he is not a slavish imitator of the great Frenchman, to whom, while inferior in earnestness and knowledge of the human heart, he was equal in dialogue, in development of plot, and in comic talent.
It had no originality or freshness, but was a slavish imitation of Provencal models, the conventions of which were transported bodily, without any change, except to be poorer.
The cordiality with which they greet each other gives Dante an opportunity to vent his indignation at the discord existing in Italy: "Ah, slavish Italy!
We see the same slavish imitation of the troubadours, the same ideas, and the same poetical language and tricks of style.
Some of the books are translated with such slavish literalness as to be almost unintelligible to a Greek.
Of course if he had been a mere thoughtless compiler he might have copied his source with such slavish exactness as to leave the "we" in without noticing that in the completed work it would produce nonsense.
Yet the epistle is no slavish imitation of the Gospel--differences stand side by side with the similarities.
