Author: Charles Sotheran

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781330122273

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Excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer: Including an Original Sonnet Excommunicated by a mercenary and abject priesthood, cast off by a savage father, the admirer of that gloomy theology founded by the murderer of Michael Servetus, and charged by his jealous brother writers as one of the founders of a Satanic School, for neither immorality of life nor breach of the parental relation, but for heterodoxy to an expiring system of dogmatism, and for acting on and asserting the right of man to think and judge for himself, a father was to have two children torn from him, in the sacred name of law and justice, by the principal adviser of a dying madman, "Defender of the Faith, by Law Established," and by us despised as the self-willed tyrant, who lost America and poured out human blood like water to gratify his lust of power. By that Lord Chancellor whose cold, impassive statue has a place in Westminster Abbey, where Byron's was refused admittance, and whose memory, when that stone has crumbled into dust, will live as one who furnished an example for execrable tyranny over the parental tie, and that Lord Eldon whom an outraged father curses in imperishable verse: "By thy most impious hell, and all its terrors; By all the grief, the madness and the guilt Of thine impostures, which must be their errors, That sand on which thy crumbling power is built; By all the hate which checks a father's love; By all the scorn which kills a father's care; By those most impious hands that dared remove Natures high bounds by thee, and by despair. "Yes, the despair which bids a father groan, And cry, my children are no longer mine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer written by Charles Sotheran and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer: Including an Original Sonnet Excommunicated by a mercenary and abject priesthood, cast off by a savage father, the admirer of that gloomy theology founded by the murderer of Michael Servetus, and charged by his jealous brother writers as one of the founders of a Satanic School, for neither immorality of life nor breach of the parental relation, but for heterodoxy to an expiring system of dogmatism, and for acting on and asserting the right of man to think and judge for himself, a father was to have two children torn from him, in the sacred name of law and justice, by the principal adviser of a dying madman, "Defender of the Faith, by Law Established," and by us despised as the self-willed tyrant, who lost America and poured out human blood like water to gratify his lust of power. By that Lord Chancellor whose cold, impassive statue has a place in Westminster Abbey, where Byron's was refused admittance, and whose memory, when that stone has crumbled into dust, will live as one who furnished an example for execrable tyranny over the parental tie, and that Lord Eldon whom an outraged father curses in imperishable verse: "By thy most impious hell, and all its terrors; By all the grief, the madness and the guilt Of thine impostures, which must be their errors, That sand on which thy crumbling power is built; By all the hate which checks a father's love; By all the scorn which kills a father's care; By those most impious hands that dared remove Natures high bounds by thee, and by despair. "Yes, the despair which bids a father groan, And cry, my children are no longer mine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.