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... Emperors of vast provinces ; they had only heard of the remote ones , and scarcely cared to visit them . I will cut all this . I will have no more of Words- worth or Hunt in particular . Why should we be of the tribe of Manasseh , when ...
... Emperors of vast provinces ; they had only heard of the remote ones , and scarcely cared to visit them . I will cut all this . I will have no more of Words- worth or Hunt in particular . Why should we be of the tribe of Manasseh , when ...
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... emperor , that they had but one head , that I might cut it off , to deliver them from any horrible courtesy they may do their undeserving countrymen . I wonder I meet with no born monsters . .O ! Devonshire , last night I thought the ...
... emperor , that they had but one head , that I might cut it off , to deliver them from any horrible courtesy they may do their undeserving countrymen . I wonder I meet with no born monsters . .O ! Devonshire , last night I thought the ...
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... Emperor Alexander , it is said , in- tends to divide his Empire , as did Dioclesian , creating two Czars besides himself , and continuing supreme monarch of the whole . Should he so do , and they , for a series of years , keep peaceable ...
... Emperor Alexander , it is said , in- tends to divide his Empire , as did Dioclesian , creating two Czars besides himself , and continuing supreme monarch of the whole . Should he so do , and they , for a series of years , keep peaceable ...
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... Emperor of Germany . LUDOLPH , his Son . CONRAD , Duke of Franconia . ALBERT , a Knight , favored by Otho . SIGIFRED , an Officer , friend of Ludolph . THEODORE , Oficers . GONFRID , ETHELBERT , an Abbot . GERSA , Prince of Hungary . An ...
... Emperor of Germany . LUDOLPH , his Son . CONRAD , Duke of Franconia . ALBERT , a Knight , favored by Otho . SIGIFRED , an Officer , friend of Ludolph . THEODORE , Oficers . GONFRID , ETHELBERT , an Abbot . GERSA , Prince of Hungary . An ...
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... , I was an open rebel , — Against the Emperor had suborn'd his son , - Drawn off his nobles to revolt , —and shown Contented fools causes for discontent , Fresh hatch'd in my ambition's eagle - nest ; So 260 LITERARY REMAINS .
... , I was an open rebel , — Against the Emperor had suborn'd his son , - Drawn off his nobles to revolt , —and shown Contented fools causes for discontent , Fresh hatch'd in my ambition's eagle - nest ; So 260 LITERARY REMAINS .
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Page 64 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Page 171 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the...
Page 74 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: // Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a shattered visage lies, / whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor / well those passions read / Which yet survive, / stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them, / and the heart that fed: // And on the pedestal / these words appear: // "My...
Page 68 - I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity — it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance — 2nd.
Page 41 - I have never yet been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning — and yet it must be. Can it be that even the greatest philosopher ever arrived at his goal without putting aside numerous objections. However it may be, O for a Life of sensations rather than of thoughts ! It is 'a vision in the form of youth
Page 141 - I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death. Even as a Matter of present interest the attempt to crush me in the Quarterly has only brought me more into notice, and it is a common expression among book men, " I wonder the Quarterly should cut its own throat.
Page 59 - Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason...
Page 85 - Or may I woo thee In earlier Sicilian ? or thy smiles Seek as they once were sought, in Grecian isles, By bards who died content on pleasant sward, Leaving great verse unto a little clan ? O, give me their old vigour, and unheard Save of the quiet Primrose, and the span Of heaven and few ears, Rounded by thee, my song should die away Content as theirs, Rich in the simple worship of a day.
Page 193 - I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.
Page 82 - I have been hovering for some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy, — were I calculated for the former, I should be glad. But as I am not, I shall turn all my soul to the latter.