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lady Jane Shelley. CHAPTER VIII . ITALY : 1818 . The gen- THE year 1818 was memorable in the life of Shelley , on account of his having at that date quitted England , to which he was destined never to return . eral state of his health ...
lady Jane Shelley. CHAPTER VIII . ITALY : 1818 . The gen- THE year 1818 was memorable in the life of Shelley , on account of his having at that date quitted England , to which he was destined never to return . eral state of his health ...
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... Italy , Or Greece , the Mother of the Free .. And I will teach thine infant tongue To call upon their heroes old In ... Italy . They went thither direct , avoid- ing even Paris , and did not pause till they arrived at Milan . From this ...
... Italy , Or Greece , the Mother of the Free .. And I will teach thine infant tongue To call upon their heroes old In ... Italy . They went thither direct , avoid- ing even Paris , and did not pause till they arrived at Milan . From this ...
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... Italy ( as Mrs. Shelley has recorded ) enchanted him . The land appeared like " a garden of delight placed beneath a clearer and brighter heaven than any he had lived under before . He wrote long descriptive letters during the first ...
... Italy ( as Mrs. Shelley has recorded ) enchanted him . The land appeared like " a garden of delight placed beneath a clearer and brighter heaven than any he had lived under before . He wrote long descriptive letters during the first ...
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... Italian -led from the hall - door to a summer - house at the end of the garden , which Shelley made his study , and ... ITALY . 103.
... Italian -led from the hall - door to a summer - house at the end of the garden , which Shelley made his study , and ... ITALY . 103.
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... Italian scenery are wonderfully mi- nute and particular , when we consider that the poet had been only about half a year in the country . Of the magnificence of the word - pictures - especially in that gorgeous vision of a Venetian ...
... Italian scenery are wonderfully mi- nute and particular , when we consider that the poet had been only about half a year in the country . Of the magnificence of the word - pictures - especially in that gorgeous vision of a Venetian ...
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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 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 - 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 175 - Do not forget my other questions. I am especially curious to hear the fate of " Adonais." I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion.
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 174 - The Adonais, in spite of its mysticism, is the least imperfect of my compositions, and, as the image of my regret and honour for poor Keats, I wish it to be so. I shall write to you, probably, by next post on the subject of that poem, and should have sent the promised criticism for the second edition, had I not mislaid, and in vain sought for, the volume that contains Hyperion...
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.