 AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling...  Littell's Living Age - Page 6101910Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring,— Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like...Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, — A pcople starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — An army, which libertieide and prey Makes as... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 404 pages
...spring, — Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leeeh-like to their fainting eountry eling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, — A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — An army, whieh libertieide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,... | |
 | 1910 - 848 pages
...the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, — Holers, who neither see nor feel, nor know, But leech-like...violence of the language, of course, bore no relation to the facts. The overcharged sentiments came from a heated brain, not from the indignation of knowledge.... | |
 | 1845 - 730 pages
...dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, that neither see, nor feel, nor know, But, leech-like,...without a blow, — A people, starved and stabbed in the untitled field,— An army, which libertecide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to those who wield,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 450 pages
...build your tomb, And weave your winding-sheet, till fair England be your sepulchre. ENGLAND IN 1819. AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —...without a blow, — A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,— An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...the dregs of their dull race, who fluw Through public scorn — mud from a muddy •pring,— Rolen, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like...blind in blood, without a blow, — A people starved anil stabbed in the unfilled field. — An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, that neither see, nor feel, nor know, But, leech-like,...without a blow, — A people, starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to those who wield,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 408 pages
...the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like...without a blow,— A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — • An army, which liberticidc and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853 - 434 pages
...dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — rnud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, that neither see, nor feel, nor know, But, leech-like,...without a blow, — A people, starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to those who wield,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 768 pages
...Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like...without a blow ; A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field ; An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield ;... | |
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