Famous quotes containing the words percy bysshe shelley, percy bysshe, bysshe, shelley and/or life:
“Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Sun-girt City! thou hast been
Ocean’s child, and then his queen;
Now is come a darker day,
And thou soon must be his prey,”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“At length upon the lone Chorasmian shore
He paused, a wide and melancholy waste
Of putrid marshes.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.”
—Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958)