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... Leigh Hunt and Horace Smith , less interesting psychologically , are still too important to be omitted , and the same remark applies to the six early letters to Miss Hitchener , selected , by the kind permission of the possessor , Mr ...
... Leigh Hunt and Horace Smith , less interesting psychologically , are still too important to be omitted , and the same remark applies to the six early letters to Miss Hitchener , selected , by the kind permission of the possessor , Mr ...
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... a winged Victory . The grouping of the horses , and the beauty , correctness , and energy of their delineation , is remarkable , though they are much destroyed . P. B. S. XXIV To LEIGH HUNT . MY DEAR FRIEND , Livorno SHELLEY'S LETTERS 127.
... a winged Victory . The grouping of the horses , and the beauty , correctness , and energy of their delineation , is remarkable , though they are much destroyed . P. B. S. XXIV To LEIGH HUNT . MY DEAR FRIEND , Livorno SHELLEY'S LETTERS 127.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Richard Garnett. XXIV To LEIGH HUNT . MY DEAR FRIEND , Livorno , 27th Sept. 1819 . We are now on the point of leaving this place for Florence , where we have taken pleasant apartments for six months , which brings us ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley Richard Garnett. XXIV To LEIGH HUNT . MY DEAR FRIEND , Livorno , 27th Sept. 1819 . We are now on the point of leaving this place for Florence , where we have taken pleasant apartments for six months , which brings us ...
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... imagination and understanding are alike subjected to rules the most absurd ; so much for Theocritus and the Greeks . * * * Most faithfully your obliged , P. B. S. XXVI To LEIGH HUNT . MY DEAR FRIEND , Florence SHELLEY'S LETTERS 133.
... imagination and understanding are alike subjected to rules the most absurd ; so much for Theocritus and the Greeks . * * * Most faithfully your obliged , P. B. S. XXVI To LEIGH HUNT . MY DEAR FRIEND , Florence SHELLEY'S LETTERS 133.
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... of saints , and is always talking of the Bambino . This will do her no harm , but the idea of bringing up so sweet a creature in the midst of such trash till sixteen ! XL To LEIGH HUNT . MY DEAREST FRIEND , Pisa SHELLEY'S LETTERS 173.
... of saints , and is always talking of the Bambino . This will do her no harm , but the idea of bringing up so sweet a creature in the midst of such trash till sixteen ! XL To LEIGH HUNT . MY DEAREST FRIEND , Pisa SHELLEY'S LETTERS 173.
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Page 119 - ... vegetation. Around rise other crags and other peaks, all arrayed, and the deformity of their vast desolation softened down, by the undecaying investiture of nature.
Page 171 - Lord B.'s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it...
Page 48 - Our conversation consisted in histories of his wounded feelings, and questions as to my affairs, and great professions of friendship and regard for me. He said that, if he had been in England at the time of the Chancery affair, he would have moved heaven and earth to have prevented such a decision. We talked of literary matters ; his 'fourth canto [of ' Childe Harold '], which he says is very good, and indeed repeated some stanzas of great energy to me ; and ' Foliage,'* which he quizzes immoderately.
Page 83 - To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women...
Page 103 - ... I now understand why the Greeks were such great poets : and, above all, I can account, it seems to me, for the harmony, the unity, the perfection, the uniform excellence, of all their works of art. They lived in a perpetual commerce with external nature, and nourished themselves upon the spirit of its forms. Their theatres were all open to the mountains and the sky. Their columns, the ideal types of a sacred forest, with its roof of interwoven tracery, admitted the light and wind ; the odour...
Page 25 - 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.
Page 221 - I once thought to study these affairs, and write or act in them. I am glad that my good genius said, refrain. I see little public virtue, and I foresee that the contest will be one of blood and gold, two elements which however much to my taste in my pockets and my veins, I have an objection to out of them.
Page 253 - Ariel to Miranda: — Take This slave of Music, for the sake Of him who is the slave of thee, And teach it all the harmony In which thou canst, and only thou, Make the delighted spirit glow, Till joy denies itself again, And, too intense, is turned to pain; For by permission and command Of thine own Prince Ferdinand, Poor Ariel sends this silent token Of more than ever can be spoken; Your guardian...
Page 111 - He has not only no temperance, no modesty, no feeling for the just boundaries of art, (and in these respects an admirable genius may err,) but he has no sense of beauty, and to want this is to want the sense of the creative power of mind.
Page 166 - He has read to me one of the unpublished cantos of " Don Juan," which is astonishingly fine. It sets him not only above, but far above, all the poets of the day, every word has the stamp of immortality.