Canto I, stanza 1; this can be compared to: "Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, / Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, / Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, / And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!" Goethe, Wilhelm Meister.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
“Two inward vultures, Sorrow and Disdain.”
Dagl'interni avoltoj, sdegno e dolore.
Canto X, stanza 6 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Dagl'interni avoltoj, sdegno e dolore.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Torquato Tasso 94
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Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/section163.html (Published 1832), st. 4
“Such protection as vultures give to lambs.”
Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Act ii, scene 2.
“You are the pits of the world! Vultures! Trash!”
To the umpire, spectators and reporters at Wimbledon, quoted in Time (December 28, 1981)
One Word is Too Often Profaned http://www.readprint.com/work-1370/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1821), st. 1