Shelley Memorials, from Authentic Sources: To which is Added an Essay on ChristianityMary Wollstonecraft Shelley Ticknor and Fields, 1859 - 308 pages |
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... DEAR SIR , “ Lymouth , Barnstaple , Aug. 18th , 1812 . " YOUR parcel arrived last night , for which I am much obliged . Before I advert to any other topic , I will explain the contents of mine in which this is enclosed . In the first ...
... DEAR SIR , “ Lymouth , Barnstaple , Aug. 18th , 1812 . " YOUR parcel arrived last night , for which I am much obliged . Before I advert to any other topic , I will explain the contents of mine in which this is enclosed . In the first ...
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... Dear Sir , permit me to remain " Yours , very truly , " PERCY B. SHELLEY . " " I am about translating an old French work , professedly by M. Mirabaud not the famous one- La Système de la Nature . Do you know anything of it ? " To T ...
... Dear Sir , permit me to remain " Yours , very truly , " PERCY B. SHELLEY . " " I am about translating an old French work , professedly by M. Mirabaud not the famous one- La Système de la Nature . Do you know anything of it ? " To T ...
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... DEAR SIR , " Tanyralt , Dec. 17th , 1812 . " You will receive the Biblical Extracts * in a day or two by the twopenny post . I confide them to the care of a person going to London . Would not Daniel J. Eaton publish them ? Could the ...
... DEAR SIR , " Tanyralt , Dec. 17th , 1812 . " You will receive the Biblical Extracts * in a day or two by the twopenny post . I confide them to the care of a person going to London . Would not Daniel J. Eaton publish them ? Could the ...
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... DEAR SIR , " February , 1813 . " I AM boiling with indignation at the horrible injustice and tyranny of the sentence pronounced on Hunt and his brother ; and it is on this subject that I write to you . Surely the seal of abjectness and ...
... DEAR SIR , " February , 1813 . " I AM boiling with indignation at the horrible injustice and tyranny of the sentence pronounced on Hunt and his brother ; and it is on this subject that I write to you . Surely the seal of abjectness and ...
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... dear sir , excuse the earnestness of the first part of my letter . I feel warmly on this subject , and I flatter myself that , so long as your own independence and liberty remain uncom- promised , you are inclined to second my desires ...
... dear sir , excuse the earnestness of the first part of my letter . I feel warmly on this subject , and I flatter myself that , so long as your own independence and liberty remain uncom- promised , you are inclined to second my desires ...
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Page 106 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 91 - LAON AND CYTHNA; or, The Revolution of the Golden City. A Vision of the Nineteenth Century.
Page 157 - self-concentration " — selfishness, perhaps. You, I am sure, will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.
Page 165 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Page 104 - A lovelier toy sweet Nature never made, A serious, subtle, wild, yet gentle being, Graceful without design and unforeseeing, With eyes — Oh speak not of her eyes! — which seem Twin mirrors of Italian Heaven, yet gleam With such deep meaning, as we never see But in the human countenance...
Page 157 - ... and load every rift of your subject with ore. The thought of such discipline must fall like cold chains upon you, who perhaps never sat with your wings furled for six months together. And is not this extraordinary talk for the writer of Endymion, whose mind was like a pack of scattered cards ? I am picked up and sorted to a pip.
Page 15 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.
Page 193 - ... our language the most subtle and imaginative passages of the Spanish poet, were marvellous, as was his command of the two languages. After this touch of his quality I no longer doubted his identity ; a dead silence ensued ; looking up, I asked, " Where is he ? " Mrs. Williams said, " Who ? Shelley? Oh, he comes and goes like a spirit, no one knows when or where.
Page 305 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need ; and they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people.
Page 96 - Yet, after all, I cannot but be conscious, in much of what I write, of an absence of that tranquillity which is the attribute and accompaniment of power.