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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... without some good effect for the time . He formed a conspiracy against the system , and succeeded in checking it — at any rate , * A novel so called . as far as regarded himself . But the fiery conflicts 14 SHELLEY MEMORIALS .
... without some good effect for the time . He formed a conspiracy against the system , and succeeded in checking it — at any rate , * A novel so called . as far as regarded himself . But the fiery conflicts 14 SHELLEY MEMORIALS .
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... called by your country is important , so much the more awful is your responsi- bility ; so much the more does it become you to watch lest you inadvertently punish the virtuous and reward the vicious . “ You preside over a Court which is ...
... called by your country is important , so much the more awful is your responsi- bility ; so much the more does it become you to watch lest you inadvertently punish the virtuous and reward the vicious . “ You preside over a Court which is ...
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... called ( ironically , I should conceive ) proofs of the Christian religion ; these books are replete with invective and calumny against infidels ; they presuppose that he who rejects Christianity must be utterly divested of reason and ...
... called ( ironically , I should conceive ) proofs of the Christian religion ; these books are replete with invective and calumny against infidels ; they presuppose that he who rejects Christianity must be utterly divested of reason and ...
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... called , in the Bristol Channel ) . The next night we came within sight of Minehead ; but the evening set in with an alarming congregation of black clouds , the sea rolled vehemently without a wind ( a phenomenon , which is said to ...
... called , in the Bristol Channel ) . The next night we came within sight of Minehead ; but the evening set in with an alarming congregation of black clouds , the sea rolled vehemently without a wind ( a phenomenon , which is said to ...
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... called a man , and it is not until I have assured you that I am one of the most inoffensive of my species , that I live on vegetable food , and never bit since I was born , that I venture to obtrude myself on your at- tention . But to ...
... called a man , and it is not until I have assured you that I am one of the most inoffensive of my species , that I live on vegetable food , and never bit since I was born , that I venture to obtrude myself on your at- tention . But to ...
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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.