The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
English prose literature
“Sing again, with your dear voice revealing
A tone
Of some world far from ours,
Where music and moonlight and feeling
Are one.”
Contents.--(Preface)--Prologue to Hellas (with note)--The
Magic Plant (with note)--Orpheus (with note)--Scene
from Tasso (with note)--Fiordispina (with note)--To
his Genius--Love, Hope, Desire, and Fear--Lines (“We
meet not as we parted”)--Lines written in the Bay of
Lerici--Fragments of the Adonais (with notes)--Translation
of the First Canzone of Dante’s Convito.
INDEX.
Addison, his _Cato_, ii. 16
Æschylus, quoted, ii. 340
Alfieri, ii. 390
Alps, the, i. 119, 120, 348
Anacreon’s swallow, ii. 359
_Anastasius_, ii. 341
Annual Parliaments, i. 364, 365
Apollodorus, a pupil of Socrates, ii. 49
Apollonius Rhodius, i. 410
Ariosto, tomb of, ii. 245;
his arm-chair, 246;
handwriting of, 247
Aristotle, ii. 49
Aspasia, ii. 134, 135
Bacon, quoted, ii. 4;
a poet, 8, 49
Barthélemi, ii. 44
Bisham wood, ii. 278
Blackstone, quoted, i. 254
Boccaccio, ii. 294, 295
Buffon, his sublime but gloomy theory respecting the future of this
globe, i. 352
Byron, Lord, his _Hours of Idleness_, quotations or plagiarisms from?
i. 132, 174;
visit to, at Ravenna, 390, 391;
his meeting with “Monk” Lewis, ii. 208;
at Venice, 226;
a gondoliere’s opinion of, 236;
Shelley’s visit to, at Venice, 237;
his _Don Juan_, 241;
his _Childe Harold_, 259;
his low debauchery, _ib._;
a great poet, 260;
visit to, at Ravenna, 332-345;
his Letter to Bowles, 342;
his _Cain_, 355;
at Leghorn, 362, 364
Calderon, i. 388, ii. 14, 305, 306;
his _Magico Prodigioso_, 353, 354
Calvin and Servetus, i. 229
Castlereagh, ii. 268
Catholic emancipation, i. 242 _sqq._
Charlotte, Princess, death of, i. 369
Chaucer, ii. 27
Chesterfield, Lord, his distinction between simulation and
dissimulation, ii. 394
Chillon, castle of, i. 340
Cicero, ii. 8, 49
Clarens, i. 341
Cobbett, William, on Annual Parliaments, i. 365; ii. 276, 289
Coleridge, S. T., his tragedy of _Remorse_, ii. 292, 353, 354
Coliseum, the, i. 394; ii. 260
Como, ii. 223-225
Comyns, Lord Chief Baron, his definition of libel, i. 254
Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, atrocities of, i. 306;
arch of, ii. 261, 280, 281
Correggio, two pictures of, ii. 249, 250
Dante, i. 385; ii. 24;
the first religious reformer, 27, 40;
tomb of, 344
Danube, the, i. 15, 32
Democritus, i. 400
Diotima, the prophetess, ii. 88, 89
Dowden, Professor, ii. 387
Drummond, Sir William, his _Academical Questions_, i. 327; ii. 176
Eaton, Daniel Isaac, sentence on, for publishing Paine’s _Age of
Reason_, ii. 369-386
Ellenborough, Lord, Shelley’s letter to, ii. 369-386
Epicurus, i. 421
Evian, town of, i. 335, 336
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