The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: From the Original Editions...Chatto & Windus, 1875 |
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... beneath their shelter wrote " The Triumph of Life , " the last of his productions . The beauty but strangeness of this lonely place , the refined pleasure which he felt in the companionship of a few selected friends , our entire ...
... beneath their shelter wrote " The Triumph of Life , " the last of his productions . The beauty but strangeness of this lonely place , the refined pleasure which he felt in the companionship of a few selected friends , our entire ...
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... beneath the hoary stem Which an old chestnut flung athwart the steep Of a green Apennine : before me fled The night ; behind me rose the day ; the deep Was at my feet , and Heaven above my head , When a strange trance over my fancy grew ...
... beneath the hoary stem Which an old chestnut flung athwart the steep Of a green Apennine : before me fled The night ; behind me rose the day ; the deep Was at my feet , and Heaven above my head , When a strange trance over my fancy grew ...
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... beneath , And others mournfully within the gloom Of their own shadow walk'd and call'd it death ; And some fled from it as it were a ghost , Half fainting in the affliction of vain breath : But more with motions , which each other crost ...
... beneath , And others mournfully within the gloom Of their own shadow walk'd and call'd it death ; And some fled from it as it were a ghost , Half fainting in the affliction of vain breath : But more with motions , which each other crost ...
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... Beneath a dusky hood and double cape , Crouching within the shadow of a tomb , And o'er what seem'd the head a cloud - like crape Was bent , a dun and faint ethereal gloom Tempering the light upon the chariot beam ; A Janus - visaged ...
... Beneath a dusky hood and double cape , Crouching within the shadow of a tomb , And o'er what seem'd the head a cloud - like crape Was bent , a dun and faint ethereal gloom Tempering the light upon the chariot beam ; A Janus - visaged ...
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... beneath either pinion Of him whom from the flock of conquerors Fame singled out for her thunder - bearing minion ; " The other long outlived both woes and wars , Throned in the thoughts of men , and still had kept The jealous key of ...
... beneath either pinion Of him whom from the flock of conquerors Fame singled out for her thunder - bearing minion ; " The other long outlived both woes and wars , Throned in the thoughts of men , and still had kept The jealous key of ...
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Page 12 - German Popular Stories. Collected by the Brothers GRIMM, and Translated by EDGAR TAYLOR. Edited with an Introduction by JOHN RUSKIN. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitable designs of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Both Series Complete. " The illustrations of this volume . . . are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate; and the original etchings, as / have before said in the Appendix to my ' Elements of Drawing* were...
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Page 53 - Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure, Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure. Pity then will cut away, Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
Page 30 - Syntax's (Dr.) Three Tours, In Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife.
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