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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... perhaps exceeds your power . Do you think to please the God you worship by this exhibition of your zeal ? If so , the demon to whom some nations offer human hecatombs is less barbarous than the Deity of civilized society . " If the law ...
... perhaps exceeds your power . Do you think to please the God you worship by this exhibition of your zeal ? If so , the demon to whom some nations offer human hecatombs is less barbarous than the Deity of civilized society . " If the law ...
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... perhaps , superior to all the theories and speculations that can possibly be formed . His- tory , in its most comprehensive sense , is a detail of all that man has done in solitude or in society , so far as it can be ren- dered matter ...
... perhaps , superior to all the theories and speculations that can possibly be formed . His- tory , in its most comprehensive sense , is a detail of all that man has done in solitude or in society , so far as it can be ren- dered matter ...
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... perhaps hear of me no more . 66 friend , " PERCY SHELLEY . " * The incoherence of the few words here written by Shelley shows the agitated state of his mind at the time . It would appear that , after sending off the 201. for the Hunt ...
... perhaps hear of me no more . 66 friend , " PERCY SHELLEY . " * The incoherence of the few words here written by Shelley shows the agitated state of his mind at the time . It would appear that , after sending off the 201. for the Hunt ...
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... perhaps try to procure me a good Livy ; for I wish very much to read it . I must be more industrious , especially in learning Latin , which I neglected shamefully last summer at intervals ; and those periods of not reading at all put me ...
... perhaps try to procure me a good Livy ; for I wish very much to read it . I must be more industrious , especially in learning Latin , which I neglected shamefully last summer at intervals ; and those periods of not reading at all put me ...
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... perhaps , I except ( and I know not if I ought to do so ) the speech of Agathon in the Symposium of Plato — that there ever was produced a moral discourse more characteristic of all that is admirable and lovely in human nature , · more ...
... perhaps , I except ( and I know not if I ought to do so ) the speech of Agathon in the Symposium of Plato — that there ever was produced a moral discourse more characteristic of all that is admirable and lovely in human nature , · more ...
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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.