Shelley Memorials, from Authentic Sources: To which is Added an Essay on ChristianityMary Wollstonecraft Shelley Ticknor and Fields, 1859 - 308 páginas |
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... considered advis- able , since it is very probable that this volume will be read by many who have not seen , nor are likely to see , any other work giving an account of the writings and actions of Shelley . I little expected that this ...
... considered advis- able , since it is very probable that this volume will be read by many who have not seen , nor are likely to see , any other work giving an account of the writings and actions of Shelley . I little expected that this ...
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... considered , but that this makes no part of what is most peculiar in them . Faults are like paper and ink ; no book can exist without them ; but they have nothing to do , in the first instance , with deciding upon the merits of an ...
... considered , but that this makes no part of what is most peculiar in them . Faults are like paper and ink ; no book can exist without them ; but they have nothing to do , in the first instance , with deciding upon the merits of an ...
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... considered as a virtual representation of the rest . " Will is quite well , and very beautiful . Mary unites with me in presenting her kind remembrances to Mrs. Godwin , and begs most affectionate love to you . " Yours , " P. B. SHELLEY ...
... considered as a virtual representation of the rest . " Will is quite well , and very beautiful . Mary unites with me in presenting her kind remembrances to Mrs. Godwin , and begs most affectionate love to you . " Yours , " P. B. SHELLEY ...
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... considered , " he writes , " all that you say about my general powers , and the particular instance of the poem in which I have attempted to develop them . Nothing can be more satisfactory to me than the interest which your admonitions ...
... considered , " he writes , " all that you say about my general powers , and the particular instance of the poem in which I have attempted to develop them . Nothing can be more satisfactory to me than the interest which your admonitions ...
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... considered contemporary productions of the same apparent preten- sions , I will own that I was filled with confidence . I felt that it was in many respects a genuine picture of my own mind . I felt that the sentiments were true , not ...
... considered contemporary productions of the same apparent preten- sions , I will own that I was filled with confidence . I felt that it was in many respects a genuine picture of my own mind . I felt that the sentiments were true , not ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 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...
Página 91 - LAON AND CYTHNA; or, The Revolution of the Golden City. A Vision of the Nineteenth Century.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.