 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 490 pàgines
...old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Thro" public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers...blow, — A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield Golden and... | |
 | 1911 - 242 pàgines
...was a drunkard and a gambler. And Parliament was still unreformed and unrepresentative of the nation. AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —...know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, 5 Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, — A people starved and stabbed in the untilled... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1912 - 254 pàgines
...graphically pictured in his Sonnet: England in 181p: — "An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, . . . Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like.... . . A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field. " It was a nation exhausted by war, burdened with debt, and seething with discontent. The Luddite... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1912 - 250 pàgines
...graphically pictured in his Sonnet: England in 1819: — "An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, . . . Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like.... . . A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field. " • 1 Don Juan, IX., 24. 2 Don Juan, VIII., 50. It was a nation exhausted by war, burdened... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1912 - 244 pàgines
...graphically pictured in his Sonnet: England in 1819: — "An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, . . . Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like.... . . A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field. " 'Don Juan, IX., 24. ' Don Juan, VIII., 50. \ It was a nation exhausted by war, burdened with... | |
 | Gilbert Slater - 1913 - 334 pàgines
...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,...blow,— A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,— An army, which liberticide and prey Make us a two-edged sword to all who wield,— A Senate—Time's... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1914 - 136 pàgines
...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, —...a two-edged sword to all who wield, — Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay ; Religion Christless, Godless — a book sealed ; A Senate, —... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1901 - 712 pàgines
...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;...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 who wield ; Golden... | |
 | Laurence Marcellus Larson - 1915 - 734 pàgines
...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, —...blow, — A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — A Senate, — Time's worst statute unrepealed, Are graves from which a glorious phantom... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 978 pàgines
...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,...blow — A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field, — An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield, — Golden... | |
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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. 
