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" Give me a spirit that on life's rough sea Loves to have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low, That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air. There is no danger... "
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare - Page 95
by Charles Lamb - 1813 - 484 pages
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Natural Fictions: George Chapman's Major Tragedies

A. R. Braunmuller - Drama - 1992 - 210 pages
...aria that ends the act and includes the lines Shelley used as the epigraph for The Revolt of Islam: He goes before them, and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational. (3.3.135-36; 144-45) These lines, and many speeches like them throughout the two plays, are Chapman's...
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...themselves, which might bring down upon individuals the bigoted contempt and rage of the multitude. There is no danger to a man, that knows What life...is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law - CHAPMAN TO MARY 1 So now my summer-task is ended, Mary, And 1 return to thee, mine own heart's home;...
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Walter Pater: The Critical Heritage

R. M. Seiler - Authors, English - 1980 - 476 pages
...Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind ... There is no danger to a man that knows What life and death is — (11) recall the whole magnificent passage, and you will see why Pater's philosophy leads on inevitably...
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Answers to Ever Recurring Questions from the People: A Sequel to the Penetralia

Andrew J Davis - Philosophy - 1996 - 424 pages
...throbs " alike in every human heart " ? The poet's scriptures contain the following assurance : '• There is no danger to a man that knows What life and...death is : there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge, nnthrr it it lawful That kt ikimlil itoop to any othrr late." Thus, friend, you understand the " Higher...
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The Mirror of Confusion: The Representation of French History in English ...

Andrew M. Kirk - English drama - 1996 - 242 pages
...crack, And his rapt ship runne on her side so lowe That she drinkes water, and her keele plowes ayre; There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is. (Conj.IE.iii.135-41) The rhetoric of this vivid passage might be dismissed as excessive and hardly...
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