Queen Mab: A Philosophical PoemWilliam Baldwin and Company, 1821 - 181 páginas |
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Ahasuerus animal asthma atheism babes beam Behold belief beneath bliss blood breath cause chain chariot clouds Comparative anatomy constant conjunction coursers crime curse dare dark death deeds Deity desolate diet disease doctrine of necessity dreadful earth earthly eternal event evil existence Fairy falsehood fame famine fear feel flame flesh frame frugivorous gloom grandeur grave happiness hast heap heart heaven hope horror ignorance Judea kings labour light living Lucretius luxury madness mind mingling misery moral murder nature o'er omnipotent palace passion peace pityless planetary spheres pleasure Plutarch poem poison pride priests Prometheus proof pure Queen Mab racter reason roar rolled ruin sacred steel scene selfishness sense silent slaves slumber smile society soul Spirit spring sweet thee thine things thou throne tion toil truth tyranny tyrant universe unnatural vegetable venomed vice virtue virtuous wealth whilst wonder wretched
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Página 151 - and stone." The Jews are at this day remarkably tenacious of their religion. Moses also declares that they shall be subjected to these causes for disobedience to his ritual: "And it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all the commandments
Página 97 - continually, and the wind retnrneth again, according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place •whence the rivers come, thither shall they return again. Ecclesiastes, chap. i. V. PAGE
Página 3 - The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world: Yet both so passing wonderful 1 Hath then the gloomy Power Whose reign is in the tainted sepulchres Seized on her sinless soul ? Must then that peerless form Which love and admiration cannot view Without a beating heart, those azure
Página 151 - the dispersion, he states that they shall there serve gods of wood and stone: "And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other, and there thou shall
Página 159 - it seem'd; wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased : all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, cholic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy. Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. And how many thousands more might not be added
Página 105 - what law ought to specify the extent of the grievances •which should limit its duration ? A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other: any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and
Página 3 - QUEEN MAB. How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid bine; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world: Yet both so passing wonderful
Página 128 - perturb states ; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no farther, and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Caesar) were civil times: but superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that
Página 33 - the mournful scene; the sulphurous smoke Before the icy wind slow rolls away, And the bright beams of frosty morning dance Along the spangling snow. There tracks of blood Even to the forest's depth, and scattered arms, And lifeless warriors, whose hard lineaments Death's self could change not, mark the dreadful path
Página 75 - perfectness: The balmy breathings of the wind inhale Her virtues, and diffuse them all abroad: Health floats amid the gentle atmosphere, Glows in the fruits, and mantles on the stream: No storm deforms the beaming brow of heaven, Nor scatters in the freshness of its pride The foliage of the ever-verdant trees; But fruits are