Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... they . For love , and beauty , and delight , There is no death , nor change ; their might Exceeds our organs , which endure No light , being themselves obscure . " till awe and tremor possessed him , and he fled viii PREFACE .
... they . For love , and beauty , and delight , There is no death , nor change ; their might Exceeds our organs , which endure No light , being themselves obscure . " till awe and tremor possessed him , and he fled viii PREFACE .
Page ix
Percy Bysshe Shelley. till awe and tremor possessed him , and he fled to the voice and presence of one he loved to relieve the mysterious agitation that shook him . * He at one time meditated a popular essay on morals ; to show how ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley. till awe and tremor possessed him , and he fled to the voice and presence of one he loved to relieve the mysterious agitation that shook him . * He at one time meditated a popular essay on morals ; to show how ...
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... possessed the poetic faculty in a high yet inferior degree , will be found on consideration to confine rather than destroy the rule . Let us for a moment stoop to the arbitration of popular breath , and usurping and uniting in our own ...
... possessed the poetic faculty in a high yet inferior degree , will be found on consideration to confine rather than destroy the rule . Let us for a moment stoop to the arbitration of popular breath , and usurping and uniting in our own ...
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... possessed , except with extraordinary exceptions , the habits and the qualities of slaves . They were probably not extremely beautiful ; at least there was no such dis- proportion in the attractions of the external form between the ...
... possessed , except with extraordinary exceptions , the habits and the qualities of slaves . They were probably not extremely beautiful ; at least there was no such dis- proportion in the attractions of the external form between the ...
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... possession of happiness and virtue , both whilst they live and after they die . " Thus Aristodemus reported the discourse of Phædrus ; and after Phædrus , he said that some others spoke , whose discourses he did not well remember . When ...
... possession of happiness and virtue , both whilst they live and after they die . " Thus Aristodemus reported the discourse of Phædrus ; and after Phædrus , he said that some others spoke , whose discourses he did not well remember . When ...
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