 Vain man ! that palace is the virtuous heart, And peace defileth not her snowy robes In such a shed as thine. Hark ! yet he mutters ; His slumbers are but varied agonies, They prey like scorpions on the springs of life. There needeth not the hell that...  California Inter Pocula - Page 637by Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1888 - 828 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 834 pages
...he mutters ; His slumbers are but varied agonies; They prey like scorpions on the springs of life. There needeth not the hell that bigots frame To punish...proportion to the fault, The punishment it merits. Is it strange That, placed on a conspicuous throne of thorns, Grasping an iron sceptre, and immured... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...he mutters ; His slumbers are but varied agonies, They prey like scorpions on the springs of life. There needeth not the hell that bigots frame To punish...— she only knows How justly to proportion to the fanlt The punishment it merits. Is it strange That this poor wretch should pride hisn in his woe! Take... | |
 | 1866 - 496 pages
...he mutters ; His slumbers are but varied agonies ; They prey like scorpions on the springs of life. There needeth not the hell that bigots frame To punish...proportion to the fault, The punishment it merits. Is it strange That, placed on a conspicuous throne of thorns, Grasping an iron sceptre, and immured... | |
 | Lawrence Heyworth - 1866 - 388 pages
...the drunkard has passed through a ' sudden death,' and the verdict of the jury is, ' FOUND DEAD.' " " There needeth not the hell that bigots frame To punish...law. She only knows How justly to proportion to the fau't The punishment it merits." " They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility ; for, certainly, man... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 664 pages
...mutters ; — His slumbers are but varied agonies ; They prey like scorpions on the springs of life. There needeth not the. hell that bigots frame To punish...earth in itself Contains at once the evil and the cure ; i And all-sufficing Nature can chastise Those who transgress her law, — she only knows How justly... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...he mutters ; His slumbers are but varied agonies, They prey like scorpions on the springs of life. There needeth not the hell that bigots frame To punish...proportion to the fault The punishment it merits. o? Is it strange That this poor wretch should pride him in his woe! Take pleasure m his abjectness,... | |
 | mrs. Edward Christian - 1873 - 276 pages
...did ! " He went to the table and again took up Shelley's Poems. " This sounds to me like sense — There needeth not the hell that bigots frame To punish...proportion to the fault The punishment it merits." " Yes," he continued, " that sounds reasonable and just : there is enough misery in this world, without... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...he mutters ; His slumbers are but varied agonies, They prey like scorpions on the springs of life. There needeth not the hell that bigots frame To punish...itself Contains at once the evil and the cure ; And all sufficing Nature can chastise Those who transgress her law, —she only knows How justly to proportion... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...club,1 of which Mr. Beauclerk had given me an account, where the members played to a desperate extent. JOHNSON. " Depend upon it, Sir, this is mere talk. Who is ruined by gaming ? You will not find six instances in an age. There is a strange rout made about deep play ; whereas... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1877 - 610 pages
...he mutters ; His slumbers are but varied agonies, They prey like scorpions on the springs of life. There needeth not the hell that bigots frame To punish those who err: earth in itself so Contains at once the evil and the cure ; And all-sufficing nature can chastise Those who transgress... | |
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