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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... wishes of Sir Percy Shelley and myself , we should have pre- ferred that the publication of the materials for a life of Shelley which we possess should have been postponed to a later period of our lives ; but as we had recently noticed ...
... wishes of Sir Percy Shelley and myself , we should have pre- ferred that the publication of the materials for a life of Shelley which we possess should have been postponed to a later period of our lives ; but as we had recently noticed ...
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... wish to educate some child , and often talked seriously of purchasing a little girl for that purpose . A tumbler , who came to the back - door to display her wonderful feats , attracted him , and he thought she would be a good subject ...
... wish to educate some child , and often talked seriously of purchasing a little girl for that purpose . A tumbler , who came to the back - door to display her wonderful feats , attracted him , and he thought she would be a good subject ...
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... wish to overthrow with sudden violence the grounds of men's belief . In any case , however , had the heads of the college been men of candid and broad intellects , they would have recognized in the author of the obnoxious pamphlet an ...
... wish to overthrow with sudden violence the grounds of men's belief . In any case , however , had the heads of the college been men of candid and broad intellects , they would have recognized in the author of the obnoxious pamphlet an ...
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... wish every man , every young man in particular , to consider the study of history , is as a means of becoming acquainted with whatever of noble , useful , generous , and admirable , human nature is capable of design- ing and performing ...
... wish every man , every young man in particular , to consider the study of history , is as a means of becoming acquainted with whatever of noble , useful , generous , and admirable , human nature is capable of design- ing and performing ...
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... list of books which I wish you to send me very soon . I am determined to apply myself they sell or not ? * This work has never been published . - ED . to a study that is hateful and disgusting to my 58 SHELLEY MEMORIALS .
... list of books which I wish you to send me very soon . I am determined to apply myself they sell or not ? * This work has never been published . - ED . to a study that is hateful and disgusting to my 58 SHELLEY MEMORIALS .
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.