The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought Together with Many Pieces Not Before Published, Volume 6Reeves and Turner, 1880 |
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Page 54 - 2 Immediately after the tribulation of these days, shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from Heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken ; and then shall appear the sign of
Page 326 - thus enforcing and illustrating that celebrated maxim, against which moral science is a perpetual effort: To whom much is given, of him shall much be required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask
Page 46 - these caused the children of Israel through the counsel of Balaam to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill erery woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Page 6 - Intestine stone and ulcer, cholic pangs, Dsemoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. And how many thousand more might not be added to this frightful catalogue ! The story of Prometheus, is one likewise which, although universally admitted to be allegorical, has never been satisfactorily explained. Prometheus stole
Page 204 - broods Over the snow. The secret strength of things Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome Of heaven is as a law, inhabits thee ! And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea, If to the human mind's imaginings Silence and solitude were vacancy ? July 23,
Page 51 - therefore, to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I; but if they cannot contain, let them marry ; it is better to marry than burn.
Page 202 - unfathomable deeps, Blue as the overhanging heaven, that spread And wind among the accumulated steeps; A desart peopled by the storms alone, Save when the eagle brings some hunter's bone. And the wolf tracks her there—how hideously Its shapes are heaped around ! rude, bare, and high, Ghastly, and scarred, and riven.—Is this the scene Where the old
Page 6 - Before his eyes appeared : sad, noisome, dark : A lazar-house it seem'd; wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased : all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce
Page 268 - lovely that we are capable of conceiving as belonging to the nature of man. Not only the portrait of our external being, but an assemblage of the minutest particles of which our nature is composed ;* a mirror whose surface reflects only the forms of purity and brightness ; a soul within our own
Page 47 - v. 6. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and ass with the edge of the sword. Joshua.