Queen MabCampe, Frederick & C., 1831 - 120 Seiten |
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... toil and slavery , implored The poor man's God to sweep it from the earth , And spare his children the detested task Of piling stone on stone , and poisoning The choicest days of life , To soothe a dotard's vanity , There an inhuman and ...
... toil and slavery , implored The poor man's God to sweep it from the earth , And spare his children the detested task Of piling stone on stone , and poisoning The choicest days of life , To soothe a dotard's vanity , There an inhuman and ...
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... toil is sped , Tastes not a sweeter meal . Behold him now Stretched on the gorgeous couch ; his fevered brain Reels dizzily awhile : But , ah ! too soon The slumber of intemperance subsides , And conscience , that undying serpent ...
... toil is sped , Tastes not a sweeter meal . Behold him now Stretched on the gorgeous couch ; his fevered brain Reels dizzily awhile : But , ah ! too soon The slumber of intemperance subsides , And conscience , that undying serpent ...
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... toil , That few may know the cares and woe of sloth . Whence , think'st thou , kings and parasites arose ? Whence that unnatural line of drones , who heap Toil and unvanquishable penury On those who build their palaces , and bring Their ...
... toil , That few may know the cares and woe of sloth . Whence , think'st thou , kings and parasites arose ? Whence that unnatural line of drones , who heap Toil and unvanquishable penury On those who build their palaces , and bring Their ...
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... toil ; A mother only to those puling babes Who , nursed in ease and luxury , make men The playthings of their babyhood , and mar , In self - important childishness , that peace Which men alone appreciate ? Spirit of Nature ! no . The ...
... toil ; A mother only to those puling babes Who , nursed in ease and luxury , make men The playthings of their babyhood , and mar , In self - important childishness , that peace Which men alone appreciate ? Spirit of Nature ! no . The ...
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... toils of law , Stand , ready to oppress the weaker still ; And , right or wrong , will vindicate for gold , Sneering at public virtue , which beneath Their pitiless tread lies torn and trampled , where Honour sits smiling at the sale of ...
... toils of law , Stand , ready to oppress the weaker still ; And , right or wrong , will vindicate for gold , Sneering at public virtue , which beneath Their pitiless tread lies torn and trampled , where Honour sits smiling at the sale of ...
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Ahasuerus animal Atheism babes beam Behold believe beneath bliss blood breath cause chain clouds coursers crime curse dare dark death Deity desolate diet disease doctrine of Necessity dreadful earth earthly eternal event evil existence Fairy falsehood fame famine fear feel fiend flame flesh frame frugivorous gloomy grave happiness heap heart heaven hell hope horror Ianthe Ianthe's ignorance Judea kings labour light living Lucretius luxury madness mankind mind mingling miracle misery moral murder nature o'er omnipotent ourang-outang palace passion peace PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY planetary spheres pleasure poison pride priests Prometheus proof pure QUEEN MAB reason rieties roar rolled ruin sacred steel scene selfishness sense SHELLEY sight silent slaves slumber smile soul Spirit spring sweet thee thine things throne toil truth tyranny tyrants universe unnatural vegetable venomed vice virtue virtuous waves wealth whilst withered wonder wretched
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 72 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Seite 103 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest...
Seite 72 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Seite 103 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day ; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee : Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Seite 9 - Seized on her sinless soul ? Must then that peerless form Which love and admiration cannot view Without a beating heart, those azure veins Which steal like streams along a field of snow...
Seite 90 - Caesar, were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states; and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government.
Seite 59 - No longer now the winged habitants, That in the woods their sweet lives sing away, Flee from the form of man ; but gather round, And prune their sunny feathers on the hands Which little children stretch in friendly sport Towards these dreadless partners of their play.
Seite 77 - A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other : any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
Seite 25 - On those who build their palaces, and bring Their daily bread? — From vice, black loathsome vice; From rapine, madness, treachery, and wrong; From all that genders misery, and makes Of earth this thorny wilderness; from lust, Revenge, and murder.
Seite 18 - Eternal Nature's law. Above, below, around, The circling systems formed A wilderness of harmony — Each with undeviating aim In eloquent silence through the depths of space Pursued its wondrous way.