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His eyes were not looking at anything in particular. Horatio Bysshe Waddington seemed to be absorbed in some solemn thought. His wife's portrait hung over the card-table in the other recess. Barbara hoped he would be nice; she hoped he would be interesting, since she had to be his secretary. But, of course, he would be. Anybody so enchanting as Fanny could never have married him if he wasn't.
He once said that his highest desire was that there should be a monument to himself somewhere in the Alps which should be only a great stone with its face smoothed and this short inscription cut in it, "Percy Bysshe Shelley, Atheist." It would seem that whatever Shelley drew of strength or inspiration from the Bible would be by way of reaction; but it is not so.
On the other hand, he'd hate it if you took him for a writing man when he's Horatio Bysshe Waddington. That's how he's got it into such a mess, because he can't get away from himself and his Manor." "Proud of his Manor, anyhow." "Oh, yes.
In London Shelley and Mary lived in great straits, abandoned by almost all their acquaintances, and playing hide-and-seek with creditors. But in January 1815 Sir Bysshe Shelley died, and Percy's money affairs improved greatly. Shelley and Mary next settled at Bishopgate, near Windsor Forest.
His ashes were carried by Trelawny to Rome and buried in the Protestant cemetery, so touchingly described by him in his letter to Peacock, and afterwards so sublimely in "Adonais". The epitaph, composed by Hunt, ran thus: "Percy Bysshe Shelley, Cor Cordium, Natus iv. August MDCCXCII. Obiit VIII Jul.
This person, Bysshe Shelley by name, had in his youth been associated with some mystery. He was not born in England, but in America and in those days the name "America" meant almost anything indefinite and peculiar.
For it is no explanation of the existence of genius to say that it is hereditary. You only put the difficulty one place back. Granting that young Alastor Jones is a budding poet because his father, Percy Bysshe Jones, was a poet before him, why, pray, was Jones the elder a poet at all, to start with?
On the other side are the following inscriptions: "Mary Wolstonecraft Godwin, daughter of William Godwin and widow of the late Percy Bysshe Shelley, born August 30th, 1797, died February 1st, 1851. Percy Florence Shelley, son of Percy Shelley and Mary Wolstonecraft, third baronet, born November 12th, 1819, died December 5th, 1889.
Shattuck, Lemuel, History of Concord, 382. Shaw, Lemuel, boarding-place, 43. Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Ode to the West Wind, 316, 399; redundant syllable, 328; Adonais, 333. Shenandoah Mountain, 306. Shingle, Emerson's jest, 364. Ships: illustration of longitude, 154; erroneous quotation, 251, 252; building illustration, 376, 377. Sicily: Emerson's visit, 62; Etna, 113.
So writes the wife-editor; and then "The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley" begin with a dedication to Harriet, restored to its place by Mary.
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