Frases célebres de Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Frases en inglés
“Hell is a city much like London —
A populous and smoky city.”
Peter Bell the Third http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4697 (1819), Pt. III, st. 1
Good-Night http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/complete-works-of-shelley/133/ (1819)
"On the Vegetable System of Diet" (c. 1815; published in the 1920s), in Complete Works, ed. Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck, Volume 6 (New York: Gordian Press, 1965), pp. 343-344, original emphasis
“Dar’st thou amid the varied multitude
To live alone, an isolated thing?”
"The Solitary" (1810), st. 1
“I never thought before my death to see
Youth's vision thus made perfect.”
Fuente: Epipsychidion (1821), l. 41
On a Future State (1815; publ. 1840)
“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight,
The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
Canto IV
Queen Mab (1813)
Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870)
To Night http://www.readprint.com/work-1379/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1821), st. 1
“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“Gold is a living god and rules in scorn,
All earthly things but virtue.”
Canto V
Queen Mab (1813)
Article 23
"Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)
Voice of Unseen Spirits, Act IV, l. 1
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“Can man be free if woman be a slave?”
Canto II, st. 43
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
Fuente: To Jane: The Invitation (1822), l. 17
St. 7
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)
“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
Notes
Queen Mab (1813)
Variante: It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Fuente: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 170
“To know nor faith, nor love, nor law, to be
Omnipotent but friendless, is to reign.”
Asia, Act II, sc. iv, l. 47
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“It doth repent me; words are quick and vain;
Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine.”
Prometheus, Act I, l. 304
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
