The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1Reeves and Turner, 1880 - Prose literature |
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... violent passions are beyond the probabilities of so youth- ful an imagination as Shelley's at that time , and were more likely to have been taken from some unpleasant foreign book which he did not more than half under- xii EDITOR'S PREFACE ...
... violent passions are beyond the probabilities of so youth- ful an imagination as Shelley's at that time , and were more likely to have been taken from some unpleasant foreign book which he did not more than half under- xii EDITOR'S PREFACE ...
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... violently from the ruffians ' arms . They had now entered the cavern - Verezzi supported himself against a fragment of rock which jutted out . " Resistance is useless , " exclaimed Zastrozzi ; " following us in submissive silence can ...
... violently from the ruffians ' arms . They had now entered the cavern - Verezzi supported himself against a fragment of rock which jutted out . " Resistance is useless , " exclaimed Zastrozzi ; " following us in submissive silence can ...
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... violent thunder - storm which shook the elements above . Convinced of the folly of hope , he addressed a prayer to his Creator to Him who hears a suppliant from the bowels of the earth . His thoughts were elevated above terrestrial ...
... violent thunder - storm which shook the elements above . Convinced of the folly of hope , he addressed a prayer to his Creator to Him who hears a suppliant from the bowels of the earth . His thoughts were elevated above terrestrial ...
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... violent fever , had reduced him to . They unchained him , and lifting him into a chariot , after four hours rapid travelling , brought the insensible Verezzi to a cottage , inhabited by an old woman alone . The cottage stood on an ...
... violent fever , had reduced him to . They unchained him , and lifting him into a chariot , after four hours rapid travelling , brought the insensible Verezzi to a cottage , inhabited by an old woman alone . The cottage stood on an ...
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... violent con- test ensued , and Bernardo's superior strength was on the point of overcoming Verezzi , when the latter , by a dex- terous blow , precipitated him down the steep and narrow staircase . Not waiting to see the event of his ...
... violent con- test ensued , and Bernardo's superior strength was on the point of overcoming Verezzi , when the latter , by a dex- terous blow , precipitated him down the steep and narrow staircase . Not waiting to see the event of his ...
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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...