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" I think one is always in love with something or other; the error, and I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it, consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal. "
The Church Quarterly Review - Page 68
edited by - 1888
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Shelley, Volume 2

John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other...image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." This paragraph contains the essence of a just criticism. Brilliant as the poem is, we cannot read it...
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Shelley

John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...impossible. The very last letter written by Shelley sets the misconception in its proper light : " I think one is always in love with something or other...image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." But this Shelley discovered only with " the years that bring the philosophic mind," and when he was...
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Shelley

John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...impossible. The very last letter written by Shelley sets the misconception in its proper light : " I think one is always in love with something or other...in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal.'7 But this Shelley discovered only with "the years that bring the philosophic mind," and when...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First ..., Volume 8

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 424 pages
...have beeu, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other...mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal. Hunt is not yet arrived, but I expect him every day. I shall see little of Lord Byron, nor shall I...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First ..., Volume 8

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 426 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other...mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternaL Hunt is not yet arrived, but I expect him every day. I shall see little of Lord Byron, nor shall I...
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Poems from Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 426 pages
...intended to be so. He slips again and again into phrases of personal passion, because of his " error of seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is perhaps eternal," but he is always striving, in intention, to speak only of the vision of his youth, of her who is his...
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Poems, selected and arranged by S.A. Brooke

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 460 pages
...intended to be so. He slips again and again into phrases of personal passion, because of his " error of seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is perhaps eternal," but he is always striving, in intention, to speak only of the vision of his youth, of her who is his...
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The Bibliographer, Volume 6

1884 - 200 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other...mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal" The dedication to Leigh Hunt of Tlie Cenci by Shelley and the early volume of Poems by Keats recalls...
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Select Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1882 - 304 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other;...mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal. Hunt is not yet arrived, but I expect him every day. I shall see little of Lord Byron, nor shall I...
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Time, Volume 6

Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1882 - 758 pages
...which no wise woman should ever inquire into. " I think," says Shelley, in a letter to Leigh Hunt, " one is always in love with something or other ; the...image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." And it is for this likeness, possibly, that Sophy, unknown even to herself, may be fruitlessly seeking...
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