The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1Reeves and Turner, 1880 - Prose literature |
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... passed days and nights seemingly countless , in the same monotonous uniformity of horror and despair . He scarcely now shuddered when the slimy lizard crossed his naked and motionless limbs . The large earth - worms , which 8 ZASTROZZI .
... passed days and nights seemingly countless , in the same monotonous uniformity of horror and despair . He scarcely now shuddered when the slimy lizard crossed his naked and motionless limbs . The large earth - worms , which 8 ZASTROZZI .
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... of provisions . A burning fever raged through his veins ; and , delirious with despairing illness , he cast from him the 1 In the original , cicling . crust which alone could now retard the rapid advances of 10 ZASTROZZI .
... of provisions . A burning fever raged through his veins ; and , delirious with despairing illness , he cast from him the 1 In the original , cicling . crust which alone could now retard the rapid advances of 10 ZASTROZZI .
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... despair , knives were denied him . As Verezzi recovered , and his mind obtained that firm tone which it was wont to possess , he perceived that it was but a device of his enemies that detained him at the cottage , and his whole thoughts ...
... despair , knives were denied him . As Verezzi recovered , and his mind obtained that firm tone which it was wont to possess , he perceived that it was but a device of his enemies that detained him at the cottage , and his whole thoughts ...
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... despair , seized her brain , maddened as it was by hopeless love . What have I to do in this world , my fairest prospect blighted , my fondest hope rendered futile ? " exclaimed the frantic Matilda , as , wound up to the highest pitch ...
... despair , seized her brain , maddened as it was by hopeless love . What have I to do in this world , my fairest prospect blighted , my fondest hope rendered futile ? " exclaimed the frantic Matilda , as , wound up to the highest pitch ...
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... despair from the physician . He , who was a man of sense , declared his opinion , that Verezzi would speedily recover , though he knew not the event which might take place in the crisis of the disorder , which now rapidly approached ...
... despair from the physician . He , who was a man of sense , declared his opinion , that Verezzi would speedily recover , though he knew not the event which might take place in the crisis of the disorder , which now rapidly approached ...
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Page 132 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature* Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between Th
Page 69 - Art thou afear'd To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire ? Would'st thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem; Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 205 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates? through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee: Retire, or taste thy folly; and learn by proof, Hell-born! not to contend with spirits of Heaven!
Page 324 - Ireland! thou emerald of the ocean, whose sons are generous and brave, whose daughters are honorable and frank and fair, thou art the isle on whose green shores I have desired to see the standard of liberty erected — a flag of fire — a beacon at which the world shall light the torch of Freedom!
Page 395 - If these individuals think that the form of government which they, or their forefathers constituted is ill adapted to produce their happiness, they have a right to change it.
Page 241 - Had friends — my early friends are fled : How cheerless feels the heart alone, When all its former hopes are dead ? Though...
Page 386 - Helvetius and Condorcet established principles ; but if they drew conclusions, their conclusions were unsystematical, and devoid of the luminousness and energy of method. They were little understood in the Revolution. But this age of ours is not stationary. Philosophers have not developed the great principles of the human mind that conclusions from them should be unprofitable and impracticable. We are in a state of continually progressive improvement.
Page 372 - ... the lion lay down with the lamb, and the infant play with the basilisk — For it supposes the extermination of the eyeless monster bigotry, whose throne has tottered for two hundred years.
Page 398 - The government of a country ought to be perfectly indifferent to every opinion. Religious differences, the bloodiest and most rancorous of all, spring from partiality.
Page 333 - Irishman who speaks for his own liberty and the liberty of his wife and children ? No ; he will steadily persevere, and sooner shall pensioners cease to vote with their benefactors than an Irishman swerve from the path of duty. But steadily persevere in the system above laid down, its benefits will speedily be manifested. Persecution may destroy some, but cannot destroy all, or nearly all ; let it do its will. Ye have appealed to truth and justice, show the goodness of your religion by persisting...