AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling... Catholic Educational Review - Σελίδα 332επεξεργασία από - 1921Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 σελίδες
...gloomy scene, a spirit that strove For truth, and like the Preacher found it not. ENGLAND IN 1819 (1819) An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king; Princes,...know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, s Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow; A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field;... | |
| Olwen Ward Campbell - 1924 - 362 σελίδες
...satire on the proud English society of that day, than that they admired George." ENGLAND in 1819 " An old, mad, blind, despised and dying King, Princes,...cling. Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow; A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field. An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1924 - 520 σελίδες
...despised, and dying king,Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,-mud from a muddy spring, Rulers who neither see, nor feel,...cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1924 - 486 σελίδες
...glory set, Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet. ISIS. 1824. SONNET: ENGLAND IN 1819 AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,— Princes, the dregs of their dull nice, who flow Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers who neither see, nor feel,... | |
| Gerrit Dekker - 1926 - 268 σελίδες
...'n verhaal van liederlikheid en die treurigste skandaal te ontvou nie, wel tot sulke uiterstes kom. An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king — Princes,...know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, i) Preface to the Volume of Posthumous Poems of 1824. *) Shelley and the Unromantics, 2nd. ed: London,... | |
| Shane Leslie - 1926 - 244 σελίδες
...be imagined. They have insulted two-thirds of the gentlemen of England." And they were Shelley's " Princes, the dregs of their dull race who flow through public scorn." The royal brothers were more often scandalous than ornamental, but they amused rather than obstructed... | |
| Walter Edwin Peck - 1927 - 562 σελίδες
...which Shelley wrote at this time, and especially the following sonnet, show: Sonnet: England in 1819 An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —...cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, — A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — An army, which liberticide and prey Makes... | |
| Walter Edwin Peck - 1927 - 544 σελίδες
...which Shelley wrote at this time, and especially the following sonnet, show: Sonnet: England in 1819 An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —...cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, — A people starved and stabbed in the unfilled field, — An army, which liberticide and prey Makes... | |
| Myron Franklin Brightfield - 1928 - 440 σελίδες
...number of volumes." The attackers were bitter and personal. Shelley wrote of the sons of George III: Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn mud from a muddy spring. Byron wrote of the unfortunate Charlotte and her father, the Regent: Weep, daughter of a royal line,... | |
| David Daiches - 1969 - 356 σελίδες
...scorn,-mud from a muddy spring,Rulen who neither see, nor feel, nor know, ' SHELLEY, KEATS, AND BYRON 907 But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,A people starved and stabbed in the unfilled field,— An army, which liberticide and prey Makes... | |
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