Sentence examples for in fetters from inspiring English sources

Fellow Romantic poet William Blake famously stated that Milton wrote "in fetters" in describing God and his angels, and wrote much more freely in depicting Satan and his fallen army, because "he was a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it".

"Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God," William Blake said, "and at liberty when of Devils and Hell".

He has seen the anguish which has taken place, when parents have been torn from their children, and children from their parents, and conveyed, with their hands and feet bound in fetters, on board of ships prepared to receive them...

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

To Blake the explanation was clear: "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's Party without knowing it".

The mischief begins when, instead of calling forth the activity and powers of individuals and bodies, it substitutes its own activity for theirs; when, instead of informing, advising, and, upon occasion, denouncing, it makes them work in fetters, or bids them stand aside and does their work instead of them.

The case was being heard in the gleaming new Rolls building of the commercial court in Fetter Lane, before Mrs Justice Gloster.

On Thursday, 2 March, a device was found on an cashpoint in Fetter Lane, EC4 by a member of the public who removed it to get their card back from the machine.

At St Dunstan's House in Fetter Lane, London, finding a court that was actually hearing family cases was almost impossible because many of them did not bother to publish an up-to-date case list for the day.

Stoneham not only ran afoul of the law for his stock transactions, but, in Fetter's view, made the crucial error of seeing the club as a venture from which he could profit.

And then up to my holy grail, the Mirror, then an old building in Fetter Lane before it moved to Holborn Circus and a front page headline that read: "The House That Five Million People Built".