The Life of Percy Bysshe ShellyG. Routledge & Sons, limited, 1906 - 585 oldal |
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acquaintance admiration afterwards agreeable amiable answer appeared asked beautiful believe Bracknell Bysshe Bysshe's certainly cold conversation course Cuckfield DEAR FRIEND delight desire dinner discourse door doubt Dublin Eliza Eton fancy father feelings fellow Field Place hand happy Harriet Harriet Westbrook heard Hogg honour hope Horsham hour Ianthe John Horne Tooke Keswick lady learned least less letter Lincoln's Inn Fields live London looked Mary Shelley matter mind morning nature never night once opinion Oxford P. B. SHELLEY peculiar Percy Bysshe Shelley PERCY SHELLEY perhaps persons philosopher Plato pleasure poem political poor port wine Queen Mab reason recollect remarkable respect Rhayader seemed Shelley's sister society sometimes soon soul strange Street tell things thought tion told took truth University walk whilst whole William Godwin wonderful write York young
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331. oldal - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
475. oldal - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
330. oldal - Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire.
502. oldal - Immortal upon earth : no longer now He slays the lamb that looks him in the face, And horribly devours his mangled flesh, Which, still avenging nature's broken law, Kindled all putrid humours in his frame, All evil passions, and all vain belief, Hatred, despair, and loathing in his mind, The germs of misery, death, disease, and crime.
216. oldal - Yet marriage, Godwin says, is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequired fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.
323. oldal - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
324. oldal - Nor can it be but a touch of arrogant ignorance to hold this or that nation barbarous, these or those times gross, considering how this manifold creature man, wheresoever he stand in the world, hath always some disposition of worth, entertains the order of society, affects that which is most in use, and is eminent in some one thing or other that fits his humour and the times.
228. oldal - I shall certainly come to York; but Harriet Westbrook will decide whether now or in three weeks. Her father has persecuted her in a most horrible way, by endeavouring to compel her to go to school.
147. oldal - ... moment of eternal duration, styled the nineteenth century. With abrupt dexterity he caught hold of the child. The mother, who might well fear that it was about to be thrown over the parapet of the bridge into the sedgy waters below, held it fast by its long train. 1 Will your baby tell us anything about pre-existence, Madam...
390. oldal - By God I will be revenged! I will murder your wife. I will ravish your sister. By God I will be revenged. He then fled as we hoped for the night. Our servants were not gone to bed, but were just going, when this horrible affair happened. This was about eleven o'clock. We all assembled in the parlour, where we remained for two hours. Mr S. then advised us to retire, thinking it impossible he would make a second attack.