Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf]. |
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Strana 13
... falsehood of the tale which his enemies whispered in the ear of the ignorant world . " His life was spent in the contemplation of nature , in arduous study , or in acts of kindness and affection . He was an elegant scholar and a ...
... falsehood of the tale which his enemies whispered in the ear of the ignorant world . " His life was spent in the contemplation of nature , in arduous study , or in acts of kindness and affection . He was an elegant scholar and a ...
Strana 32
... falsehood's trade Shall be as hateful and unprofitable As that of truth is now . Where is the fame Which the vain - glorious mighty of the earth Seek to eternize ? Oh ! the faintest sound From time's light footfall , the minutest wave ...
... falsehood's trade Shall be as hateful and unprofitable As that of truth is now . Where is the fame Which the vain - glorious mighty of the earth Seek to eternize ? Oh ! the faintest sound From time's light footfall , the minutest wave ...
Strana 37
... falsehood hang even o'er the cradled babe , Stifling with rudest grasp all natural good . Ah ! to the stranger - soul , when first it peeps From its new tenement , and looks abroad For happiness and sympathy , how stern And desolate a ...
... falsehood hang even o'er the cradled babe , Stifling with rudest grasp all natural good . Ah ! to the stranger - soul , when first it peeps From its new tenement , and looks abroad For happiness and sympathy , how stern And desolate a ...
Strana 39
... falsehood , and thy lusts Deep wallow in the earnings of the poor , With whom thy master was : -or thou delightest In numbering o'er the myriads of thy slain , All misery weighing nothing in the scale Against thy short - lived fame : or ...
... falsehood , and thy lusts Deep wallow in the earnings of the poor , With whom thy master was : -or thou delightest In numbering o'er the myriads of thy slain , All misery weighing nothing in the scale Against thy short - lived fame : or ...
Strana 40
... sister of religion , selfishness ! Rival in crime and falsehood , aping all The wanton horrors of her bloody play ; Yet frozen , unimpassioned , spiritless , Shunning the light , and owning not its name . 40 QUEEN MAB .
... sister of religion , selfishness ! Rival in crime and falsehood , aping all The wanton horrors of her bloody play ; Yet frozen , unimpassioned , spiritless , Shunning the light , and owning not its name . 40 QUEEN MAB .
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Ahasuerus animal atheism babes bay of Spezia beam beautiful Behold believe beneath blood breath cause Christian clouds constant conjunction coursers crime curse dark death Deity desolate diet disease doctrine of Necessity dreadful earth earthly eternal event evil Fairy falsehood fame fear feel flame flesh frame FRANCES WRIGHT friends givorous gloomy grave happiness heap heart heaven honour hope horror human Ianthe Ianthe's ignorance justice labour Leghorn Leigh Hunt Lerici light living Lord Byron mankind mind mingling miracle misery moral murder nature o'er omnipotent passion peace PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY pleasure poison pride Prometheus proof pure QUEEN MAB reason religion rolled ruin sacred steel scene selfishness sense Shelley sight silent slaves smile society soul Spirit thee thine things thou throne tion toil truth tyranny tyrants universe unnatural vegetable Via Reggio vice virtue virtuous waves whilst wonder wretched
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Strana 72 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Strana 72 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Strana 78 - Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery, that some few may monopolize according to law. A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
Strana 24 - The Fairy and the Spirit Approached the overhanging battlement. — Below lay stretched the universe ! There, far as the remotest line That bounds imagination's flight, Countless and unending orbs In mazy motion intermingled, Yet still fulfilled immutably Eternal nature's law. Above, below, around The circling systems formed A wilderness of harmony ; Each with undeviating aim, In eloquent silence, through the depths of space Pursued its wondrous way.
Strana 32 - When man's maturer nature shall disdain The playthings of its childhood; — kingly glare Will lose its power to dazzle; its authority Will silently pass by; the gorgeous throne Shall stand unnoticed in the regal hall, Fast falling to decay; whilst falsehood's trade Shall be as hateful and unprofitable As that of truth is now.
Strana 23 - Spirit of Nature ! here ! In this interminable wilderness Of worlds, at whose immensity Even soaring fancy staggers, Here is thy fitting temple. Yet not the lightest leaf That quivers to the passing breeze Is less instinct with thee : Yet not the meanest worm That lurks in graves and fattens on the dead Less shares thy eternal breath. Spirit of Nature ! thou ! Imperishable as this scene. Here is thy fitting temple.
Strana 35 - Cloud upon cloud, in dark and deepening mass, Roll o'er the blackened waters ; the deep roar Of distant thunder mutters awfully ; Tempest unfolds its pinion o'er the gloom That shrouds the boiling surge ; the...
Strana 102 - Ah ! how unlike the man of times to come ! Of half that live the butcher and the tomb ; Who, foe to nature, hears the general groan, Murders their species, and betrays his own. But just disease to luxury succeeds, And every death its own avenger breeds ; The fury passions from that blood began, And turn'd on man a fiercer savage, man.
Strana 25 - The passions, prejudices, interests, That sway the meanest being, the weak touch That moves the finest nerve, And in one human brain Causes the faintest thought, becomes a link In the great chain of nature.
Strana 10 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.