 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...  Lectures on literature and art, delivered in the ... Royal college of ... - Страница 148написао/ла Dublin city, roy. coll. of sci - 1875Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1912 - 370 страница
...pensioned courtiers, and the whole swarm of army-jobbers, and loanmongers, and fraudulent contractors who " leech-like to their fainting country cling Till they drop blind in blood." It was supported in the Cabinet mainly by the Bedf ords, — a knot of reckless statesmen, overloaded... | |
 | Gilbert Slater - 1913 - 334 страница
...traffic in seats organised by the borough-mongers. CHAPTER IV THE AWAKENING OF THE SPIRIT OF REFORM "An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king,— Princes,...in blood, without a blow,— A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,— An army, which liberticide and prey Make us a two-edged sword to... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1914 - 136 страница
...from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. W. WORDSWORTH. SHELLEY 75 ENGLAND IN 1819 AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —...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 sword to all... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1901 - 712 страница
...edition, 1839. AN old, mad, blind, despised and dying Jtingj Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring;...blind in blood, without a blow; A people starved and stabbed in the unbilled field; An army which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all... | |
 | Laurence Marcellus Larson - 1915 - 734 страница
...hunting park. 1 The poet Shelley stated the views of the extreme radicals in a sonnet, England in 1819: "An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king, —...in blood, without a blow, — A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — A Senate, — Time's worst statute unrepealed, Are graves from which... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 978 страница
...down they sink, and spread a ruin round. Cnglanti in 1810 BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (See page 272) AV old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes,...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 sword to... | |
 | Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1915 - 210 страница
...CHAPTER XII LEECHES PABT III EXOTIC LEECHES (Limnatts nilotica and Haemadipta zeylanica). Rulers that neither see nor feel nor know, But leech-like to their...cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow. (SHELLEY, England in 1819.) THE extension of war into the Near and Far East has brought into action... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 страница
...behind? ENGLAND IN 1819 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AH old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,1— Princes,2 me vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be 3 who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop,... | |
 | Charles Milner Atkinson, John Edwin Mitchell - 1920 - 266 страница
...forbid that my " public conduct should ever recommend me to the favour of ' any of these princes." " Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow " Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring." Thus did Shelley dispose of these same Royal Dukes, a few months later, in his sonnet, " England in... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 страница
...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;... | |
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