Note Books, from the Originals in the Library of W.K. Bixby: Deciphered, Transcribed, and Edited, Volume 2members of the Bibliophile Society, 1911 |
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Page 7
... false starts , there is yet another yet : the four starts are But yet , In pitying , Within , and Like . In line 8 Mary's reading , without care , occurs ; but without is struck out in favour of takest no , which reduces the lines to ...
... false starts , there is yet another yet : the four starts are But yet , In pitying , Within , and Like . In line 8 Mary's reading , without care , occurs ; but without is struck out in favour of takest no , which reduces the lines to ...
Page 19
... false start - What- which also is crossed through : next , the line was written with a gap , thus- O thou inconstant light which shinest ; then Gleam was substituted for light and in turn struck out , and sudden & was written above thou ...
... false start - What- which also is crossed through : next , the line was written with a gap , thus- O thou inconstant light which shinest ; then Gleam was substituted for light and in turn struck out , and sudden & was written above thou ...
Page 23
... false starts , As he and When . To Fraud habited " Like Eldon " in " an ermined gown " we have not the pleasure of an introduction , though the gown appears in a cancelled passage belonging to a later part of the poem ; nor do we find ...
... false starts , As he and When . To Fraud habited " Like Eldon " in " an ermined gown " we have not the pleasure of an introduction , though the gown appears in a cancelled passage belonging to a later part of the poem ; nor do we find ...
Page 24
... false start for line 3 , Came ; and then the second couplet shaped itself thus- Like Sidmouth , came Hypocrisy With a cold tear in either eye [ . Even that was not attained until the reading Like Sidmouth , came Hypocrisy Singing ...
... false start for line 3 , Came ; and then the second couplet shaped itself thus- Like Sidmouth , came Hypocrisy With a cold tear in either eye [ . Even that was not attained until the reading Like Sidmouth , came Hypocrisy Singing ...
Page 27
... false start struck out . The reading rightly in line 2 is of value as one more piece of evidence against the substituted nightly in that copy by Mary ( penes me ) so scrupulously re- vised by Shelley himself , which is in effect the ...
... false start struck out . The reading rightly in line 2 is of value as one more piece of evidence against the substituted nightly in that copy by Mary ( penes me ) so scrupulously re- vised by Shelley himself , which is in effect the ...
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ÆSCHYLUS Agamemnon Art thou Auction catalogue Beatrice beauty Bibliophile Bibliophile Society blood boy In winter camelions cancelled in favour cancelled opening cave Cenci Chorus cloud Clytem[nestra Conington connexion couplet daughter deep draft earth England established text excursus finally flowers fragment Greek head heart Heaven imagery jotted light line of stanza Mary cum Shelley Mary Shelley Marzio Mask of Anarchy Medwin's Murder night Note Book Ocean palaces pale passage PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Pindar poem poet poet's poetry Preface Prometheus Prometheus Unbound prose quatrain rejected readings says second couplet second line seems Shakespeare Shel Shelley manuscript Shelley wrote Sidmouth Sophocles Spenserian stanza spirit stands cancelled struck substituted sweet tempest thee thine third line Thou art thought thro tion tragedy triplet tyrants un sospiro uncancelled VARIATIONS verse wanderings wind Wise and Mary Wise holograph word write written in pencil
Popular passages
Page 46 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.
Page 21 - As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.
Page 102 - What a picture does this line suggest of the mind as a wilderness of intricate paths, wide as the universe, which is here made its symbol; a world within a world which he who seeks some knowledge with respect to what he ought to do searches throughout, as he would search the external universe for some valued thing which was hidden from him upon its surface.
Page 22 - All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew Which from his wide cloak he drew.
Page 159 - GOOD night? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite ; Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night. How can I call the lone night good, Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight ? Be it not said, thought, understood, Then it will be good night.
Page 47 - Tis to be a slave in soul And to hold no strong control Over your own wills, but be All that others make of ye.
Page 79 - I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers...
Page 112 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek.
Page 94 - It has no necessary connection with any one virtue. The most atrocious villain may be rigidly devout, and, without any shock to established faith, confess himself to be so. Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is, according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge ; never a check.
Page 134 - This, for thy information, hath she spoken With dignity and truth. Now tell me, herald, Of Sparta's king wish I to question thee, The pride of Greece : returns he safe with you ! HER.