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" 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 himself ; just, gentle, wise : but man Passionless ? no, yet free from... "
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gende, wise: but man Passionless; no, yet free from guilt or pain, Which were, for his will made or...
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The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism

Forest Pyle - 1995 - 240 pages
...fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed — but man: Equal, unclassed, tribeless and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree,...King Over himself; just, gentle, wise — but man. These lines, delivered by "the spirit of the hour," bring the third act to a close and pronounce the...
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Progress, Poverty, and Population: Re-reading Condorcet, Godwin, and Malthus

John Avery - 1997 - 194 pages
...fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircu inscribed, but man Fqual, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise ... Political Just ice was published on 14 February 1 793, in the tense weeks between a French declaration...
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Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 338 pages
...true of Shelley's conception in 1819 as in 1811. Even in the millennial world, there is still chance, death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else...unascended Heaven Pinnacled dim in the intense inane. (III. iv. 202—4) So Shelley ended Prometheus Unbound at the beginning of September 1819. However,...
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Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay

Balachandra Rajan - 1999 - 284 pages
...has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree,...the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man. (3.4.193-97) In a multivocal world, not all differences can be eliminated. We need a language of community,...
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Modernisierung und Literatur: Festschrift für Hans Ulrich Seeber zum 60 ...

Walter Göbel - 2000 - 370 pages
...des III. Aktes, mit dem das Drama ursprünglich enden sollte, stellt der "Spirit of the Hour" fest: Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability [ . . . ] (Prometheus Unbound, III.iv.200-201)26 Wenn die Möglichkeit des Wandels ("mutability") nicht...
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Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language

Stuart Peterfreund - 2002 - 432 pages
...that silence and solitude may in fact betoken plenitude. Human beings, the Spirit reports, are Not yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance...unascended Heaven Pinnacled dim in the intense inane. (III.iv.2oo-2O4) As long as humanity must contend with "chance and death and mutability," it is subject...
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English Literature and Ancient Languages

Kenneth Haynes - 2003 - 225 pages
...has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree,...himself; just, gentle, wise: but man Passionless? the play itself, in its indebtedness to Greek tragedy, encourages us to perceive a connection to Greek....
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Utopia & Revolution: On the Origins of a Metaphor

Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 pages
...has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircum scribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise . . . [II. 193-97] The lesson, in Shelley's final lines, was there for all the world's despairing rebels...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shelley

Timothy Morton - 2006 - 188 pages
...realization: the man remains, Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed: — but man: Equal, unclassed, tribeless and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree,...like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability. (3.4.193-201) Along with the continuing language of negation (notice the '-less' and the 'un-' formations,...
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