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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Page 3
... written , II has this peculiarity - that the first six recto pages in it bear pencilled drafts of a fragmentary kind , each beginning at the top of a page , and that one of them may be securely assigned to 1817 , to wit the Lines to ...
... written , II has this peculiarity - that the first six recto pages in it bear pencilled drafts of a fragmentary kind , each beginning at the top of a page , and that one of them may be securely assigned to 1817 , to wit the Lines to ...
Page 4
... written on the first page of Note Book II , and the last 3 lines ( and a foot ) at the top of page 3. It was in a note on the Poems of 1817 that Mary first gave this and other frag- ments in her second collected edition of 1839. She ...
... written on the first page of Note Book II , and the last 3 lines ( and a foot ) at the top of page 3. It was in a note on the Poems of 1817 that Mary first gave this and other frag- ments in her second collected edition of 1839. She ...
Page 9
... written and cancelled . On page II 9 r . , amid the draftings of stanzas XXXI and XXXIV of The Mask of Anarchy , is a fragment which has no ostensible connexion with that poem , but may safely be regarded as an incomplete variant of ...
... written and cancelled . On page II 9 r . , amid the draftings of stanzas XXXI and XXXIV of The Mask of Anarchy , is a fragment which has no ostensible connexion with that poem , but may safely be regarded as an incomplete variant of ...
Page 16
... written in pencil ; and I did not use it in 1882. I found the first six lines well written by Shelley on a letter addressed to him by Godwin , proposing an investment for the poet which was to benefit the philosopher , and suggesting a ...
... written in pencil ; and I did not use it in 1882. I found the first six lines well written by Shelley on a letter addressed to him by Godwin , proposing an investment for the poet which was to benefit the philosopher , and suggesting a ...
Page 18
... written with the word see left out , thus : - Nor a worm shall his shadow ; and line 9 reads , In the starlight . Mary Shelley , in giving this fragment as No. XVI in a group in her second collected edition of 1839 , takes , in the main ...
... written with the word see left out , thus : - Nor a worm shall his shadow ; and line 9 reads , In the starlight . Mary Shelley , in giving this fragment as No. XVI in a group in her second collected edition of 1839 , takes , in the main ...
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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.