The Masque of Anarchy: To which is Added, Queen Liberty; Song--to the Men of England |
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... opinions of its predecessor . 66 Anarchy the Skeleton , " riding through the streets , and grinning and bowing on each side of him , 66 As well as if his education Had cost ten millions to the nation , is another instance of the union ...
... opinions of its predecessor . 66 Anarchy the Skeleton , " riding through the streets , and grinning and bowing on each side of him , 66 As well as if his education Had cost ten millions to the nation , is another instance of the union ...
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... opinions . The title - page of the proof is scrawled over with sketches of trees and foliage , which was a habit of his in the intervals of thinking , whenever he had pen or pencil in hand . He would indulge in it while waiting for you ...
... opinions . The title - page of the proof is scrawled over with sketches of trees and foliage , which was a habit of his in the intervals of thinking , whenever he had pen or pencil in hand . He would indulge in it while waiting for you ...
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... opinion , because it tends to confirm inferior understandings in a similar delusion , and to make the vulgarity of would - be refinement still more con- fident in its assumptions . It is acknowledged on all hands , that Mr. Shelley's ...
... opinion , because it tends to confirm inferior understandings in a similar delusion , and to make the vulgarity of would - be refinement still more con- fident in its assumptions . It is acknowledged on all hands , that Mr. Shelley's ...
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... opinions . The only sentiment by which a privileged class is to be vindi- cated , may claim a fair discussion ; and the settlement of it be safely left to the growth of the sentiment itself , and its expansion into a freedom from its ...
... opinions . The only sentiment by which a privileged class is to be vindi- cated , may claim a fair discussion ; and the settlement of it be safely left to the growth of the sentiment itself , and its expansion into a freedom from its ...
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Page 11 - I met Murder on the way — He had a mask like Castlereagh — Very smooth he looked, yet grim ; Seven blood-hounds followed him : All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew Which from his wide cloak he drew.
Page 10 - Yet nothing can less consist with reason, or afford smaller hopes of any beneficial issue, than the plan which should abolish the regal and the aristocratical branches of our constitution, before the public mind, through many gradations of improvement, shall have arrived at the maturity which can disregard these symbols of its childhood.
Page 12 - And he wore a kingly crown, And in his grasp a sceptre shone ; On his brow this mark I saw —
Page 24 - MEN of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low ? Wherefore weave with toil and care, The rich robes your tyrants wear...
Page 20 - Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
Page 18 - Thou art clothes, and fire, and food For the trampled multitude — No — in countries that are free Such starvation cannot be As in England now we see.
Page 24 - The seed ye sow. another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears.
Page 22 - 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 16 - Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants
Page 24 - Have ye leisure, comfort, calm, Shelter, food, love's gentle balm ? Or what is it ye buy so dear With your pain and with your fear...