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... spirit is breathing over us ; when vengeance is departing from our laws , and love is gradually creeping in ; when freedom of in- quiry is becoming at once a social and a legal right ; when the fierce voices of hatred , which burst in ...
... spirit is breathing over us ; when vengeance is departing from our laws , and love is gradually creeping in ; when freedom of in- quiry is becoming at once a social and a legal right ; when the fierce voices of hatred , which burst in ...
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... bookseller has any characteristics in common with Socrates or Jesus Christ ; still , the spirit which pillories and imprisons him is the same which brought them to an untimely end . Still SHELLEY'S ACQUAINTANCE WITH GODWIN . 35.
... bookseller has any characteristics in common with Socrates or Jesus Christ ; still , the spirit which pillories and imprisons him is the same which brought them to an untimely end . Still SHELLEY'S ACQUAINTANCE WITH GODWIN . 35.
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... spirit of the Christian religion ; for no sanction can be found under that dispensation which will warrant a * The omitted portions are the passages which Shelley introduced into the notes to Queen Mab , and which are printed in the ...
... spirit of the Christian religion ; for no sanction can be found under that dispensation which will warrant a * The omitted portions are the passages which Shelley introduced into the notes to Queen Mab , and which are printed in the ...
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... Spirit of the Universe , or to suppose that it is capable of altering them , is to degrade God into man , and to annex to this incomprehensible Being quali- ties incompatible with any possible definition of his nature . " It may be here ...
... Spirit of the Universe , or to suppose that it is capable of altering them , is to degrade God into man , and to annex to this incomprehensible Being quali- ties incompatible with any possible definition of his nature . " It may be here ...
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... spirit it is not less false and futile than the first . It must indeed , I confess it , have appeared insensi- ble and unfeeling ; it must have appeared an ill return for all the kind greetings we had received at your house , to leave ...
... spirit it is not less false and futile than the first . It must indeed , I confess it , have appeared insensi- ble and unfeeling ; it must have appeared an ill return for all the kind greetings we had received at your house , to leave ...
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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.