More especially do their souls become enraptured with love if these sons deliver them from the iron grasp of a merciless tyrant-Disenthrall them from the chains of slavery and make them free and independent.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
Rival in crime and falsehood, aping all The wanton horrors of her bloody play; Yet frozen, unimpassioned, spiritless, 25 Shunning the light, and owning not its name, Compelled, by its deformity, to screen, With flimsy veil of justice and of right, Its unattractive lineaments, that scare All, save the brood of ignorance: at once 30 The cause and the effect of tyranny; Unblushing, hardened, sensual, and vile; Dead to all love but of its abjectness, With heart impassive by more noble powers Than unshared pleasure, sordid gain, or fame; 35 Despising its own miserable being, Which still it longs, yet fears to Disenthrall.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
The object of that war was to Disenthrall the united colonies from foreign rule, which had proved to be oppressive, and to separate them permanently from the mother country.
"Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present"
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