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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
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Select Poems of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 496 pages
...of my own life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other ; the error — I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh...blood to avoid it — consists in seeking in a mortal I image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." , Essay on Love, Prose Works, Vol. II, Forman's...
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Select Poems of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 490 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my own life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other ; the error — I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it — consists in seeking...
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Select Poems of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 512 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my own life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other ; the error — I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it — consists in seeking...
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Select Poems of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 492 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my own life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other ; the error — I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it — consists in seeking...
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The Metaphysical Magazine, Volumes 9-10

1899 - 828 pages
...Shelley himself puts it, writing of his disappointment in fhe lady of Epipsychidion, — "The error lay in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is perhaps eternal." It will be contended against this view of the progress of the Beautiful and the sublime, that it does...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1901 - 710 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. 1 1 U an idealized history _ of my life and feelings. 1 think one is always in love with something or other...seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, per, Saps, eternal.' In sending it for publication to Oilier, he says : ' I send yon . . . and a longer...
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Litterarhistorische Forschungen

Max freiherr von Waldberg - 1906 - 196 pages
...the Epipsych.] 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;...and I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesl1 and blood to avoid it — consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps,...
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Poets' Country

Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - 1907 - 588 pages
...is always in love with something or other ; the error — and I confess it is not easy for spirits in flesh and blood to avoid it — consists in seeking...image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." The story of Emilia Viviani is entirely human : hardly human is the invitation, in Epipsychidion, to...
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Poets' Country

Andrew Lang - 1907 - 584 pages
...verse they were sublimated into faint and fragrant essences not of this world. "I think," Shelley says, "one is always in love with something or other ; the...error — and I confess it is not easy for spirits in flesh and blood to avoid it — consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps,...
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Letters, Volume 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 604 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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