 | 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... | |
 | Animal welfare - 1901 - 436 pages
...Witness the concluding stanzas : — " This is the day, which down the void abysm At the Earth-bom's spell yawns for Heaven's despotism, And Conquest is...free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory." It will be noted that the "victory" which is the final word of Shelley's great poem, is a peaceful... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1911 - 708 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. CANCELLED OR UNPUBLISHED PASSAGES IN PROMETHEUS UNBOUND (0 (Cancelled lines following i. 37.) [WHEN... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...dead endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow v'rge of crag-like agony, springs, And folds ovt the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom,...free : This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. ' 4 "s • - . . -,' • THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY REFERBNCB DEPARTMENT This book is under no circumstance*... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dead endurance, from the slip]>ery, steep. And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs...beautiful and free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.1 1819. 1830. /< 1 The prominent feature of Shelley's theory of the destiny of the human species... | |
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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... 
