The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text Carefully Revised by William Michael Rossetti, Volume 2John Slark, 1885 |
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Page 50
... by six months or so . For , after her first shyness was worn out , We sate there , rolling billiard - balls about , - When the Count entered . Salutations past : " The words you spoke last night 50 JULIAN AND MADDALO .
... by six months or so . For , after her first shyness was worn out , We sate there , rolling billiard - balls about , - When the Count entered . Salutations past : " The words you spoke last night 50 JULIAN AND MADDALO .
Page 120
... enter here . " None frowned , none trembled , none with eager fear Gazed on another's eye of cold command , Until the subject of a tyrant's will Became ( worse fate ! ) the abject of his own , Which spurred him , like an outspent horse ...
... enter here . " None frowned , none trembled , none with eager fear Gazed on another's eye of cold command , Until the subject of a tyrant's will Became ( worse fate ! ) the abject of his own , Which spurred him , like an outspent horse ...
Page 141
... enter- tained it , and was indeed attached to it with fervent enthusiasm . That man could be so perfectionized as to be able to expel evil from his own nature , and from the greater part of the creation , was the cardinal point of his ...
... enter- tained it , and was indeed attached to it with fervent enthusiasm . That man could be so perfectionized as to be able to expel evil from his own nature , and from the greater part of the creation , was the cardinal point of his ...
Page 150
... entered , and told the ladies that pity had held them back , and that they could not overcome their repugnance to kill in cold blood a poor sleeping old man . These words filled Beatrice with anger ; and , after having bitterly reviled ...
... entered , and told the ladies that pity had held them back , and that they could not overcome their repugnance to kill in cold blood a poor sleeping old man . These words filled Beatrice with anger ; and , after having bitterly reviled ...
Page 152
... enter the chapel with her ; and the latter , whatever excess she might have indulged in on the first intimation of a speedy death , so much the more now courageously sup- ported herself , and gave every one certain proofs of 152 THE CENCI .
... enter the chapel with her ; and the latter , whatever excess she might have indulged in on the first intimation of a speedy death , so much the more now courageously sup- ported herself , and gave every one certain proofs of 152 THE CENCI .
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Page 454 - ... The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. - Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek! Follow where all is fled! - Rome's azure sky, Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words, are weak The glory they transfuse with fitting truth to speak.
Page 371 - twas her own ; as with no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.
Page 302 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 376 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Page 139 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 377 - Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.
Page 274 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.
Page 82 - Dost thou faint, mighty Titan? We laugh thee to scorn. Dost thou boast the clear knowledge thou waken'dst for man? Then was kindled within him a thirst which outran Those perishing waters ; a thirst of fierce fever, Hope, love, doubt, desire, which consume him for ever.
Page 370 - To that high Capital, where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay, He came; and bought, with price of purest breath, A grave among the eternal.— Come away!
Page 99 - Hark! the rushing snow! The sun-awakened avalanche! whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there Flake after flake, in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.