Shelley's Early Life from Original Sources: With Curious Incidents, Letters, and Writings, Now First Published Or Collected |
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... means and in the very way which Shelley himself had projected . That way and those means , it is scarcely necessary to say , were not suggested by Shelley to the powerful mind that organized and made them effective . They were in ...
... means and in the very way which Shelley himself had projected . That way and those means , it is scarcely necessary to say , were not suggested by Shelley to the powerful mind that organized and made them effective . They were in ...
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... means an unimportant one - as being connected with himself . In fact , at the conclusion of the series of papers which he devotes to Shelley in that curious . mélange of vanity and vindictiveness called Stockdale's Budget , he declares ...
... means an unimportant one - as being connected with himself . In fact , at the conclusion of the series of papers which he devotes to Shelley in that curious . mélange of vanity and vindictiveness called Stockdale's Budget , he declares ...
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... means in good odour with the authorities of the college , from the side he took in the election of Lord Grenville , against his competitor , a member of University . Shelley , by his family and connexions , as well as disposition , was ...
... means in good odour with the authorities of the college , from the side he took in the election of Lord Grenville , against his competitor , a member of University . Shelley , by his family and connexions , as well as disposition , was ...
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... mean about the 30th or 31st of that month . The two young men thus for the first time brought together spent the evening at Hogg's rooms . The host obligingly tells us that he slept very soundly after the departure of " the vivacious ...
... mean about the 30th or 31st of that month . The two young men thus for the first time brought together spent the evening at Hogg's rooms . The host obligingly tells us that he slept very soundly after the departure of " the vivacious ...
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... mean as ' Rosicrucian ' is , the elixir of eternal life . Mr. God- win's romance of St. Leon ' turns upon that super- stition " It has not , however , been noticed that its first title , St. Irvyne , may have been suggested to him by a ...
... mean as ' Rosicrucian ' is , the elixir of eternal life . Mr. God- win's romance of St. Leon ' turns upon that super- stition " It has not , however , been noticed that its first title , St. Irvyne , may have been suggested to him by a ...
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Page 348 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 237 - But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense : Strong in new arms, lo ! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums, Arrest him, empress ; or you sleep no more...
Page 217 - Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity.
Page 152 - Advertisement. — The lowest possible price is set on this publication, because it is the intention of the Author to awaken in the minds of the Irish poor a knowledge of their real state, summarily pointing out the evils of that state, and suggesting rational means of remedy. — Catholic Emancipation, and a Repeal of the Union Act (the latter the most successful engine that England ever wielded over the misery of fallen Ireland...
Page 327 - Government is never supported by fraud until it cannot be supported by reason. 9No man has a right to disturb the public peace by personally resisting the execution of a law, however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason to promote its repeal.
Page 208 - Can you conceive, O Irishmen! a happy state of society - conceive men of every way of thinking living together like brothers. The descendant of the greatest Prince would there, be entitled to no more respect than the son of a peasant. There would be no pomp and no parade, but that which the rich now keep to themselves, would then be distributed among the people. None would be in magnificence, but the superfluities then taken from the rich would be sufficient when spread abroad, to make every one...
Page 20 - Michaelmas term, that is, at the end of October, in the year 1810, I happened one day to sit next to a freshman at dinner : it was his first appearance in hall. His figure was slight, and his aspect remarkably youthful, even at our table, where all were very young. He seemed thoughtful and absent. He ate little, and had no acquaintance with any one.
Page 330 - No man has a right to monopolise more than he can enjoy ; what the rich give to the poor, whilst millions are starving, is not a perfect favour, but an imperfect right.
Page 283 - Helvetius and Condorcet established principles ; but if they drew conclusions, their conclusions were unsystematical, and devoid of the luminousness and energy of method. They were little understood in the Revolution. But this age of ours is not stationary. Philosophers have not developed the great principles of the human mind that conclusions from them should be unprofitable and impracticable. We are in a state of continually progressive improvement. One truth that has been discovered can never...
Page 329 - If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India ! 26.