10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCEPTRELESS»
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sceptreless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, how ...
1 Mr. Bossetti certainly throws light, but also darkness, on this curiously
constructed and punctuated passage by giving it thus : — The man remains, —
Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man : Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and
nationless, ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman, 1880
2
Monarchs retired from business
The sceptreless Monarch was drawn to the assembly in a spring- less wagon,
hauled painfully along by plodding oxen. The reluctant beasts were goaded on
by a rude hind, and the " lazy King " had no unbusy time of it then to maintain
himself ...
3
Monarchs retired from business
She appeared at the head of the army, issued her orders with masculine vigour,
and reaped popular hatred, not only for herself, but for the monarch, sceptreless
even when the sceptre was placed in his hands, and who hid himself beneath his
...
Man would be greater if " sceptreless, free, equal, unclassed, tribeless, and
nationless," than under the laws which are the growth of history, and which
recognise the actual distinctions between nation and nation. From the sceptre on
the one ...
Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot, 1863
5
Shelley's Goddess : Maternity, Language, Subjectivity: ...
All men believed and hoped, is torn aside — The loathsome mask has fallen, the
man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed — but man: Equal, unclassed,
tribeless and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, — the King Over ...
Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi Professor of English Stanford University, 1992
6
Shelley's Prometheus unbound: a variorum edition
With his punctuation, he felt that the meaning would be that "man, though
sceptreless, free, and uncircumscribed, is still man; though equal, the king over
himself, &c., he is still man. He has not passed from the human into any other
condition: ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lawrence John Zillman, 1959
7
Prometheus unbound: A varlorum ed
With his punctuation, he felt that the meaning would be that "man, though
sceptreless, free, and uncircumscribed, is still man; though equal, the king over
himself, &c, he is still man. He has not passed from the human into any other
condition: ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1959
8
The Cenci. Prometheus unbound, with other poems. Oedipus ...
mouldering is applied to them in line Mr. Rossetti says that in other edition 189,
there can be no difficulty about the statement is that " man remains its being
applied to them in line 172, sceptreless (unsubjected to any scep- — in the same
...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1880
9
The Queen's Case Stated ... Seventh Edition
Forget not also, there is a throne which is above even the throne of England—
where flatterers cannot come—where kings are sceptreless. The vows you made
are written in language brighter than the sun, and in the course of nature, you
must ...
Charles PHILLIPS (One of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court.), 1820
10
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Go, Freedom, bereaved, o'er the \Vest's mighty water; Shriek out to the winds for
thy sceptreless daughter ; Back the wheels of decrepit Oppression are whirl'd, To
rivet his shackles again on the world l 9 Nol false as the heart was the hand ...
