Note Books of Percy Bysshe Shelley: From the Originals in the Library of W.K. Bixby, Part 2members of the Bibliophile society, 1911 |
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... sense and negatives the theory of a hiatus . The only real textual difficulty occurs in line 9 , in re- gard to the word for which Mary has put features : the word is very much rubbed and obscured ; but it is , emphatically , not ...
... sense and negatives the theory of a hiatus . The only real textual difficulty occurs in line 9 , in re- gard to the word for which Mary has put features : the word is very much rubbed and obscured ; but it is , emphatically , not ...
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... sense is immeasurably degraded , and the encouraging motive of secrecy and security eliminated . As regards the first stanza , I should think Shelley , even at that time of initial composition , meant earth and ocean as in Sophia ; I ...
... sense is immeasurably degraded , and the encouraging motive of secrecy and security eliminated . As regards the first stanza , I should think Shelley , even at that time of initial composition , meant earth and ocean as in Sophia ; I ...
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... sense in which Love's Philosophy or our new Ana- creontic might perhaps be so called . I suppose if we knew that Mary was herself the person invited to follow to the wild briar dingle whither the poet had gone off with another note ...
... sense in which Love's Philosophy or our new Ana- creontic might perhaps be so called . I suppose if we knew that Mary was herself the person invited to follow to the wild briar dingle whither the poet had gone off with another note ...
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... sense being still further wounded by the use of Hope as a common noun in a passage where Hope has already been personalized into one of the most radiant of Shelley's entities . The established text ends stanza XXXI with- Thoughts sprung ...
... sense being still further wounded by the use of Hope as a common noun in a passage where Hope has already been personalized into one of the most radiant of Shelley's entities . The established text ends stanza XXXI with- Thoughts sprung ...
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... emerge finally as follows : XXXIV ] A rushing light of clouds & splendour A sense awakening & yet tender .. and at its close Was heard & felt . . . These words of joy and fear arose XXXV ] As if their own indignant Earth Which gave [ 42 ]
... emerge finally as follows : XXXIV ] A rushing light of clouds & splendour A sense awakening & yet tender .. and at its close Was heard & felt . . . These words of joy and fear arose XXXV ] As if their own indignant Earth Which gave [ 42 ]
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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 26 - Lawyers and priests, a motley crowd, To the earth their pale brows bowed; Like a bad prayer not over loud, Whispering - 'Thou art Law and God.
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 100 - 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 44 - 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 155 - 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 45 - 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 77 - I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers...
Page 108 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek.
Page 44 - So that ye for them are made Loom, and plough, and sword, and spade, With or without your own will bent To their defence and nourishment.