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Urania asked the name of this last Shepherd: he then made bare his branded and ensanguined brow, which was like Cain's or Christ's. Another Mountain Shepherd, 'the gentlest of the wise, leaned over the deathbed. Adonais has drunk poison. Some 'deaf and viperous murderer' gave him the envenomed draught.
It's the home of the fer-de-lance." "The Yellow Viper?" queried Stuart. "The same. An' the name's a good one. It's more viperous than any other snake of the viper bunch, an' its disposition is mean and yellow right through. Ever see one?" "No," said Stuart, "I haven't. I heard there were some in Trinidad, and there have been a few reported in Cuba. But I guess they're rare there.
"These are they that roared at the tragicall historie of the man eating up his dead wife in Virginia" "scandalous reports of a viperous generation." If further evidence were wanting, we have it in "The New Life of Virginia," published by authority of the Council, London, 1612. This is the second part of the "Nova Britannia," published in London, 1609.
I must see the property and have some talk with this Jew of whom you speak; and then, let me direct you " "We shall see, M. Fraisier." "What is this? 'We shall see?" repeated Fraisier, speaking in the voice natural to him, as he gave La Cibot a viperous glance. "Am I your legal adviser or am I not, I say? Let us know exactly where we stand." La Cibot felt that he read her thoughts.
"What I should have expected." "God help him! we must save him out of that last lowest deep!" cried Campbell. "Where is he, sir?" "A vow! a vow! I have a vow in heaven! Why guide the hounds toward the trembling hare? Our Adonais hath drunk poison; Oh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?"
But thou shalt live in thine own degraded identity, and shalt thyself be conscious how degraded thou art. Another suggestion might be that the words 'But be thyself are equivalent to 'Be but thyself. And ever at thy season be thou free To spill the venom when thy fangs o'erflow. This keeps up the image of the 'viperous' murderer the viper.
Personally I don't blame Lord Rip a particle; it must have been very rough on him to have been banished from the presence of the king enough to inflame a man to do anything. With two such characters in the story, the scene was set and the plot and adventures followed as a matter of course. Lord Rip de Viperous pursued the Heroine. But at every step he is frustrated.
When the war broke out, he discovered, to his horror, that Phyllis actually had political ideas unshakable, obstinate ideas opposed to his own and that he had been nourishing in his bosom a viperous patriot. Phyllis, for her part, realised with equal horror the practical significance of her father's windy theories.
A worm, as being one of the lowest forms of life, is constantly used as a term implying contempt; but it may be assumed that Shelley here uses 'worm' in its original sense, that of any crawling creature, more especially of the snake kind. There would thus be no departure from the previous epithet 'viperous. See the remarks as to 'reptiles, St. 29. The magic tone Whose prelude, &c.
He had not been born without natural gifts, such as Heaven rarely denies to prince or peasant; but the courage which he once possessed had been exhausted on the field of Moncontour, his manhood had been left behind him at Venice, and such wit as Heaven had endowed him withal was now expended in darting viperous epigrams at court-ladies whom he was only capable of dishonouring by calumny, and whose charms he burned to outrival in the estimation of his minions.
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