Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... hope - but my hopes are not unmixed with fear for what will befal this inestimable spirit when we appear to die . " A mystic ideality tinged these speculations in Shelley's mind ; certain stanzas in the poem of " The Sensitive Plant ...
... hope - but my hopes are not unmixed with fear for what will befal this inestimable spirit when we appear to die . " A mystic ideality tinged these speculations in Shelley's mind ; certain stanzas in the poem of " The Sensitive Plant ...
Page xi
... hope , are proceeding towards the establishment of that liberty and toleration which he worshipped . " The thing to fear , " he observes , " will be , that the change should proceed too fast - it must be gradual to be secure . " I do ...
... hope , are proceeding towards the establishment of that liberty and toleration which he worshipped . " The thing to fear , " he observes , " will be , that the change should proceed too fast - it must be gradual to be secure . " I do ...
Page xii
... and love there , where those to whom he was united on earth by various ties of affection , sympathy , and admiration , may hope to join him . PUTNEY , December , 1839 . A DEFENCE OF POETRY CONTENTS . ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE xii PREFACE .
... and love there , where those to whom he was united on earth by various ties of affection , sympathy , and admiration , may hope to join him . PUTNEY , December , 1839 . A DEFENCE OF POETRY CONTENTS . ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE xii PREFACE .
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... hope , has reassumed its yet unwearied flight into the heaven of time . Listen to the music , unheard by outward ears , which is as a ceaseless and invisible wind , nourishing its everlasting course with strength and swiftness . The ...
... hope , has reassumed its yet unwearied flight into the heaven of time . Listen to the music , unheard by outward ears , which is as a ceaseless and invisible wind , nourishing its everlasting course with strength and swiftness . The ...
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... hope that it can enter into the mind of man to conceive . The freedom of women produced the poetry of sexual love . Love became a religion , the idols of whose worship were ever present . It was as if the statues of Apollo and the Muses ...
... hope that it can enter into the mind of man to conceive . The freedom of women produced the poetry of sexual love . Love became a religion , the idols of whose worship were ever present . It was as if the statues of Apollo and the Muses ...
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