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Indeed, she appears to be in some degree conscious of this; for she says, apologetically, that she has published the "Memorials" for the special purpose of neutralizing the misstatements and spirit of Mr. Hogg's work, and also lets us know that the time is not yet come for the publication of other and more important matter calculated to do justice to the character of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
This island depends on its fish, and, since cod and hake and pollock have left us, we must cast about for other means of support. "This meeting, then, after due deliberation last night and earnest supplication of the Almighty for guidance, has been called to determine what course we shall pursue." Mr. Bysshe, warm now and perspiring freely, retired to his seat and mopped his face.
Mason Brothers. 12mo. pp. 345. $1.00. Temper. A Novel. By Miss Marryatt. Dick and Fitzgerald. 12mo. pp. 365. $1.00. Shelley Memorials: from Authentic Sources. Edited by Lady Shelley. To which is added an Essay on Christianity, by Percy Bysshe Shelley: now first Printed. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. 308. 75 cts. Sparks from a Locomotive; or, Life and Liberty in Europe.
Let us hope that Percy Bysshe Shelley is not destined to leave behind him, like that great genius, a name for ever detestable to the truly FREE and the truly WISE. He talks in his preface about MILTON, as a "Republican," and a "bold inquirer into Morals and religion." Could any thing make us despise Mr. Shelley's understanding, it would be such an instance of voluntary blindness as this!
Where the rows of shelves met the shutter cases a fold of window-curtain overlapped their ends. On the fifth shelf, covered by the curtain, she found the four volumes of Shelley's Poetical Works, half-bound in marble-paper and black leather. She had passed them scores of times in her hunt for something to read. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Percy Bysshe what a silly name.
He discovers that she is quite unable to follow him in his towering flights. The story of Percy Bysshe Shelley is a singular one. The circumstances of his early marriage were strange. The breaking of his marriage-bond was also strange. Shelley himself was an extraordinary creature. He was blamed a great deal in his lifetime for what he did, and since then some have echoed the reproach.
It had been cut from the head of a man, who, quiet and simple as a child, lived out the law of his nature, and set the world at defiance, Bysshe Shelley. The Doctor, talking to her father, watched the girl furtively, took in every point, as one might critically survey a Damascus blade which he was going to carry into battle.
Field Bullard has tried the field. Bullard's setting of Tennyson's almost lurid melodrama in six stanzas, "The Sisters," has caught the bitter mixture of love and hate, and avoided claptrap climaxes most impressively. Words by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Music by FRED. FIELD BULLARD, Op. 17, No. 4.
Sir Bysshe Shelley owed his position in society, the wealth he accumulated, and the honours he transmitted to two families, wholly and entirely to his own exertions. Though he bore a name already distinguished in the annals of the English landed gentry, he had to make his own fortune under conditions of some difficulty. He was born in North America, and began life, it is said, as a quack doctor.
His anxious parents would then send an old servant after him, who would return to say that "Master Bysshe only took a walk, and came back again." A very strange form of amusement it must have seemed to his plain matter-of-fact father. But now these careless happy days came to an end, or only returned during holiday times, for when Bysshe was ten years old he was sent to school.
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