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Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by ... - Page 32
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1835
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The Republican, Volume 8

Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1823 - 816 pages
...of nature. Go on then intrepid Champion of the Rights of Man, and never relax in your efforts till Falsehood's trade shall be as hateful and unprofitable as that of Truth is now. By the desire of a few friends, I was to have impressed upon you the necessity of devoting a little...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...When man's malurcr nature shall disdain The playthings of its childhood;— kingly glare Will 1очс its power to dazzle ; its authority Will silently...gorgeous throne Shall stand unnoticed in the regal kill, Fast falling to decay; whilst falsehood's trade Shall be as hateful and unprofitable As that...
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Political Letters and Pamphlets: Published for the Avowed ..., Issues 1-34

William Carpenter - English newspapers - 1831 - 590 pages
...When man's maturar nature shall disdain The playthings of its childhood;— kingly glare Will lose its power to dazzle ; its authority Will silently...hateful and unprofitable As that of truth is now. SHELLEY. I, J)oui>erie-street, Fleet-street. Thursday, Nov. 11. Mr LOUD DUKE, It is with feelings of...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...When man's maturer nature shall disdain The playthings of its childhood ; — kingly glare Will lose ueror t DAMON. On impossible And false hypotheses...God Of supreme goodness and of highest grace, All si Ae that of truth is now. Where is the fame SHELLEY'S POETICAL WORKS. Thai swells the flood of ages,...
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Queen Mab

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1831 - 132 pages
...The playthings of its childhood : kingly glare Shall lose its power to dazzle : its authority Shall silently pass by : the gorgeous throne Shall stand...hateful and unprofitable As that of truth is now. He sought to make a Heaven of Earth ; and truly if such as he only were the Earth's inhabitants, we...
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Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem, with Notes

Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1831 - 130 pages
...The playthings of its childhood : kingly glare Shall lose its power to dazzle : its authority Shall silently pass by: the gorgeous throne Shall stand unnoticed in the regal hall, f Fast falling to decay; whilst falsehood's trade Shall be as hateful and unprofitable As that of truth...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 13

1835 - 616 pages
...one other instance, well. The Fairy says — " Beside the eternal Nile The Pyramids have risen." " Where is the fame Which the vain-glorious mighty of the earth Seek to eternize . Oh ! the faintest lonnd From time's light footfall, the minutest wave That swells the Hood of ages, whelms in nothing...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...When man's maturer nature shall disdain The playthings of its childhood ; — kingly glare Will lose its power to dazzle ; its authority Will silently pass by ; the gorgeous throne Shall stand unnotieed in the regal hall, Fast falling to deeay ; whilst falsehood's trade Shall be as hateful and...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...silently pass by; the gorgeous throne Shall stand unnotieed in the regal hall, Fast falling to deeay ; whilst falsehood's trade Shall be as hateful and unprofitable As that of truth is now. Where is the fame Whieh the vain-glorious mighty of the earth Seek to eternize ! Oh ! the faintest sound From time's...
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The Bible of Nature, and Substance of Virtue, Condensed from the Scriptures ...

Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...When man's maturer nature shall disdain The playthings of its childhood ; — kingly glare Will lose its power to dazzle ; its authority Will silently...hateful and unprofitable As that of truth is now. Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject not the citizen : for kings And subjects, mutual...
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