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SHELLEY'S WORKS IN VERSE AND PROSE

VOLUME VIII

How delightful a picture, even if it be not true! How magnificent is the conception which this bold theory suggests to the contemplation, even if it be no more than the imagination of some sublimest and most holy poet, who, impressed with the loveliness and majesty of his own nature, is impatient and discontented with the narrow limits which his imperfect life and the dark grave have assigned for ever as his melancholy portion.

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