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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."
Variation under Domestication
IV. Spiritual Laws
The living Heaven thy prayers respect,House at once and architect,Quarrying man’s rejected hours,Builds therewith eternal towers;Sole and self-commanded works,Fears not undermining days,Grows by decays,And, by the famous might that lurksIn reaction and recoi...
Lectures on the English Poets
This book collects together lectures on English poetry Hazlitt delivered at London’s Surrey Institution in 1818, ranging from ‘On Poetry in General’, through acknowledged classics such as Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare, and on to ‘The Living Poets’.
Variation under Nature
Before applying the principles arrived at in the last chapter to organic beings in a state of nature, we must briefly discuss whether these latter are subject to any variation. To treat this subject properly, a long catalogue of dry facts ought to be given; bu...
V. Love
“I was as a gem concealed;Me my burning ray revealed.”Koran Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each often. Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking, in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall l...
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Characters of Shakespear's Plays is an 1817 book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary critic William Hazlitt. Composed in reaction to the neoclassical approach to Shakespeare's plays typified by...
Struggle for Existence
VI. Friendship
A ruddy drop of manly bloodThe surging sea outweighs,The world uncertain comes and goes,The lover rooted stays.I fancied he was fled,And, after many a year,Glowed unexhausted kindlinessLike daily sunrise there.My careful heart was free again, —O friend, my b...
The Works of Sir William Jones
Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest
VII. Prudence
Theme no poet gladly sung,Fair to old and foul to young,Scorn not thou the love of parts,And the articles of arts.Grandeur of the perfect sphereThanks the atoms that cohere. What right have I to write on Prudence, whereof I have little,and that of the neg...
The Poetical Works Of William Jones
Published in London: 1810.
Laws of Variation
VIII. Heroism
“Paradise is under the shadow of swords.”Mahomet Ruby wine is drunk by knaves,Sugar spends to fatten slaves,Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons;Thunderclouds are Jove’s festoons,Drooping oft in wreaths of dreadLightning-knotted round his head;The hero is not f...
Four Dissertations
Four Dissertations is a collection of four essays by the Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume, first published in 1757.
Difficulties of the Theory
IX. The Over-Soul
"But souls that of his own good life partake,He loves as his own self; dear as his eyeThey are to Him: He’ll never them forsake:When they shall die, then God himself shall die:They live, they live in blest eternity."Henry More Space is ample, east and west,...