 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...  Studies in Literature, 1789-1877 - Page 200by Edward Dowden - 1878 - 523 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 lehte
...eternity. But let not the pansy among them be ; Ye were injured, and that means memory. ENGLAND IN l8l9. AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —...Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, — A pcople starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — An army, which libertieide and prey Makes as... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 396 lehte
...eternity. But let not the pansy among them be ; Yo were injured, and that means memory. ENGLAND IN 1819. AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —...drop, blind in blood, without a blow, — A people starved and stabbed in the until Ici I field, — An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 lehte
...despised, and dying king, — Prinees, the dregs of their dull raee, who flow Through publie seorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leeeh-like to their fainting eountry eling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, — A people... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1907 - 484 lehte
...life of one who, after all, is the best of the four GEORGES. SHELLEY summed it up in three lines : — An old, mad, blind, despised and dying King, Princes,...flow Through public scorn, mud from a muddy spring.' really is — nice? . . that 's such a comfort- . . .1 feel I can trust you entirely; you always understand... | |
 | 1910 - 862 lehte
...affairs. л sonnet written in 1819 shows with perfect clearness the ferocity of Shelley's temper — An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King,— Princes,...Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, — Hulers. who neither see nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till... | |
 | 1910 - 848 lehte
...with perfect clearness the ferocity of Shelley's temper — An old, mad, blind, despised, and dy-. Ing King, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who...Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, — Holers, who neither see nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till... | |
 | 1845 - 732 lehte
...only exhibit the diseased phase of Shelley's philanthropy : ENGLAND IN 1919. " An old, blind, mad, despised and dying king, Princes, the dregs of their...public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, that neither see, nor feel, nor know, But, leech-like, to their fainting country cling, Till they drop,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 lehte
...the dregs of their dull race, who fluw Through public scorn — mud from a muddy •pring,— Rolen, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like...drop, blind in blood, without a blow, — A people starved anil stabbed in the unfilled field. — An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 450 lehte
...build your tomb, And weave your winding-sheet, till fair England be your sepulchre. ENGLAND IN 1819. AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —...Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring,— Hulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 lehte
...exhibit the diseased phase of Shelley's philanthropy : — "ENGLAND IN J819. " An old, blind, mad, despised and dying king, Princes, the dregs of their...public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, that neither see, nor feel, nor know, But, leech-like, to their fainting country cling, Till they drop,... | |
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