 | Henry Stephens Salt - English poetry - 1893 - 386 pages
...At the Eartlvborn's spell yawns for Heaven's despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dead...free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory I6o FELICIA HEMANS. 1794—1835. THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND. THE breaking waves... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1894 - 624 pages
...Christ, Prometheus, or Demogorgon, still sustain man in the resolve * E. Caird, Evolution of Religion. To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite; To forgive...free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory ! Prometheus represents in terms of Shelley's consciousness the highest spirit of man, the spirit of... | |
 | Laurence Henry Schwab - Christian life - 1897 - 296 pages
...Prometheus Unbound : " To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death and night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To...free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory." underlies the display of energy that characterises our age. That hopefulness is simply trust in God.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 704 pages
...THE LAW OF LIFE. Dcmogorgon Speaks. This is the day which down the void abysm At the Earth-born 's spell yawns for Heaven's despotism, And Conquest is...free : This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. — Prometheus Unbound^ Act IV. i^^tf^tfl' ^^re&afip^r I«£ !W# -tifc& ? *&p«fe -^ Jfe^fe •*? ?... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 532 pages
...Earth-born's spell yawns for Heaven's despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep ; I,ove from its awful throne of patient power In the wise...free : This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. Unbound^ Act IV. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY REFERENCE DEPARTMENT Thtt book is under no circumstances... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1898 - 496 pages
...re-assume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; • 57° To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To...free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. SONNET: ENGLAND IN 1819. AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - Belief and doubt in literature - 1898 - 160 pages
...Paradise. Let us conclude our excerpts from Prometheus Unbound with these most noble closing lines : — To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive...falter, nor repent ; This, like thy glory, Titan ! is to he Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free ;" This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory ! The... | |
 | 1899 - 840 pages
...suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite, To forgive wrongs darker than death or night, To defy power that seems omnipotent, To love and bear, to hope till hope...beautiful and free. This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, Victory!" But alongside of this passionate hope in mankind is a deep despair of himself, and this apparent... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American poetry - 1900 - 886 pages
...of a prophecy ! Oh Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ? " — Ode to the West Wind. " These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which...Good, great, and joyous ; beautiful and free ; This alone Life, Joy, Empire, Victory !" —Prometheus Unbound. 12. Sensualism — Impulsiveness. — "I... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1900 - 400 pages
...to re-assume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; 570 To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To...free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS Published with Prometlieus Unbound, 1820. THE SENSITIVE PLANT.1 PART FIRST. A SENSITIVE... | |
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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor... 
