ShelleyHarper, 1899 - 189 pages |
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... genius was still ascendant , when his " swift and fair creations " were issuing like worlds from an archangel's hands . In his case we have perhaps only to deplore the loss of masterpieces that might have equalled , but could scarcely ...
... genius was still ascendant , when his " swift and fair creations " were issuing like worlds from an archangel's hands . In his case we have perhaps only to deplore the loss of masterpieces that might have equalled , but could scarcely ...
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... genius , and bent on piercing to the very truth beneath all shams and fictions woven by society and ancient usage , he was driven by the circumstances of his birth and his surroundings into an exaggerated warfare with the world's ...
... genius , and bent on piercing to the very truth beneath all shams and fictions woven by society and ancient usage , he was driven by the circumstances of his birth and his surroundings into an exaggerated warfare with the world's ...
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... genius , leading him to fly at the highest while he overleaped the facts of ordinary human life . " From his earliest years , " says Mrs. Shelley , " all his amusements and occupations were of a daring , and in one sense of the term ...
... genius , leading him to fly at the highest while he overleaped the facts of ordinary human life . " From his earliest years , " says Mrs. Shelley , " all his amusements and occupations were of a daring , and in one sense of the term ...
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... genius which was always seeking to transcend and reach the life of life withdrawn from ordinary gaze . On the other hand he seems to have delighted in the toys of sci- ence , playing with a solar microscope , and mixing strangest ...
... genius which was always seeking to transcend and reach the life of life withdrawn from ordinary gaze . On the other hand he seems to have delighted in the toys of sci- ence , playing with a solar microscope , and mixing strangest ...
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... genius in the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty , he makes the following reference to circumstances which might otherwise be trivial : - While yet a boy , I sought for ghosts , and sped Thro ' many a listening chamber , cave , and ruin , And ...
... genius in the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty , he makes the following reference to circumstances which might otherwise be trivial : - While yet a boy , I sought for ghosts , and sped Thro ' many a listening chamber , cave , and ruin , And ...
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