captivity quotes

Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the L God might dwell among them.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 68:18.

This is the last day of1943, a year to be said goodbye to without regret, holding as it did nothing beyond captivity and depression, weary waiting, and above all the sight of immeasurable human misery, suffering and death.

- Robert Hardie
  Diary entry, 31 Dec.

Most glorious Lord of Life! that, on this day, Didst makeThy triumph over death and sin; And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

- Edmund Spenser
  Amoretti, sonnet 68.

Most glorious Lord of Life! that, on this day, Didst makeThy triumph over death and sin; And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

- Edmund Spenser
  Amoretti, sonnet 68.

What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them. Their first practical leader is an Irish-American.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Of Charles Stewart Parnell.'TheTwo Chiefs of Dunboy: or, an Irish Romance of the Last Century'in Pall Mall Gazette,13 Apr.