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" They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things... "
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Including Various Additional ... - Page 327
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The*...want love ; and those who love want wisdom ; And all beat things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good...powerful goodness want : worse need for them. The wine want love ; and those who love, want wisdom ; Anil all best things are thus confused to ill. Many...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 16

1850 - 772 pages
...reveries of: Shelley, may chill the visions of philanthropy, until he feelg with that ideal reformer, that "The good want power but to weep barren tears. The...wise want love, and those who love want wisdom, And ill best things are thus confused to ill." Bat each and all these phases of reaction, in the spirit...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 pages
...make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate. And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good...be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men A> if none felt : they know not what they do. PROMETHEUS. Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good...them. The wise want love ; and those who love want Andallbestthingsarethuscoufusedto ill. [wisdom; Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live...
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The Columbian Magazine, Volumes 5-6

1846 - 694 pages
...LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF A DREAMER. ''The good want power, but to weep barren tears , The powerfol goodness want ; worse need for them. The wise want love , and those who lore want wisdom ; And all best things are thus confused to ilf" Rather disconsolate, but how true...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: complete in one volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...their minds The lanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good fi>r man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good...confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would bo just, But live amon^ their suffering fellow-men As if none felt: they know not what they do. PROMKTIIEOS....
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good...them. The wise want love ; and those who love want Andallbeetthingsarcthusconfusedto ill. [wisdom; Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live...
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Notes from Books: In Four Essays

Sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 322 pages
...through defect of sober intrepidity on the part of those who are rational, foolhardihood is triumphant. ' The Good want power, but to weep barren tears. The...wisdom ; And all best things are thus confused to ill.' * I do not mean of course to imply that it is for want of written poetry that the French nation cannot...
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The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volumes 1-4

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And vet they know not that they do not dare. The good want...them. The wise want love ; and those who love want wisAnd all best things are thus confused to ill. [dom; -Many are strong and rich, and would be just,...
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