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A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ... - Page 57
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...the regret they leave, there cannot but be pleasure, participating as it does in the nature of its object. It is as it were the interpenetration of a...footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only, as on the wrinkled sand which paves it. These and...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 pages
...the regret they leave, there cannot but be pleasure, participating as it does in the nature of its object. It is as it were the interpenetration of a...footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only, as on the wrinkled sand which paves it. These and...
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...pleasure, participating as it does in the nature of its object. It is as it were the interpénétration of a diviner nature through our own ; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only, as on the wrinkled sand which paves it. These and...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...plea•чге, participating as it does in the nature of its object It is, as it were, the interpénétration of a diviner nature through our own ; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the rooming calm erases, and whose traces remain only, u on the wrinkled sand which paves it These and...
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The Catholic Institute Magazine, Volume 1

1856 - 390 pages
...regret they leave, there cannot but be pleasure, participating as it does in the nature of the subject. It is, as it were, the interpenetration of a diviner...footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only on the wrinkled sand which pave it. These and corresponding...
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The National Review, Volume 3

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...the regret they leave, there cannot but be pleasure, participating as it does in the nature of its object. It is as it were the interpenetration of a diviner nature through our own; but its footsteps arc like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only,...
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The National Review, Volume 3

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...diviner nature through our own; but its footsteps arc like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only, as on the wrinkled sand which paves it." In verse, Shelley has compared the skylark to a poet; we may turn back the description on his own art...
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Emily Morton: with sketches from life and critical essays

Charles Westerton - 1859 - 228 pages
...it does, in the nature of its object. It is, as it were, the inter-penetration of a diviner thought through our own ; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the morning-calm erases, and whose traces remain only, as on the wrinkled sand which paves it. " These...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge paintings - 1874 - 584 pages
...the regret they leave, there cannot but be pleasure, participating as it does in the nature of its object. It is as it were the interpenetration of a...footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only, as on the wrinkled sand which paves it. These and...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 5

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...the regret they leave, there cannot but be pleasure, participating as it does in the nature of its object. It is, as it were, the interpenetration of...which paves it. These and corresponding conditions of beino; are experienced principally by those of the most delicate sensibility and the most enlarged...
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