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cation Burton seemed did of fitting Melanchol 1 for y my . purpose A few , words and they of preliminary are written . justifi You - ,
I doubt not , whose eyes ( may they never shed a tear which shall not leave them clearer and brighter !) pass over these lines , are a
Discontented Person . AncN io / We are , then , in perfectly frank relations with each other . It has oftenvery oftenstruck me , that if
, , I were to register my discontents as they occur to me , it would be good pro salute animi ; and also , on the general principles
already suggested , for ends external to myself . It may be worth the trial . I have just been " sitting" on an inquest upon a poor
child , the victim of domestic neglect ; and I will , if you please , begin the memoranda of my discontented experiences in the next
number , with an account of the dislosures of that inquest . ]
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264 Notices Of Books.
264 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Xxxvii.—:Notices Of Books.
XXXVII . — : NOTICES OF BOOKS .
The Life Of Percy Jbysshe Shelley. By Th...
The Life of Percy JBysshe Shelley . By Thomas Jefferson Hogg . Moxon . What is it that the world requires of Shelley ? Nearly forty years
have elapsed since the wanderer was laid to rest , and within three months we have had three separate works all dealing with him and
his deeds . Mr . Middleton ' s book , a mere compilation of existing materials , mixed up with some mistakes ; Trelawney ' s recollections ,
a more authentic record of the latter portion of Shelley ' s life , written from the somewhat uncongenial point de vue of a man of
the world ; and now the two first volumes of an elaborate biography , put together by Shelley ' s own college friend , who was expelled with
him from Oxford , dedicated to the wife of his only son , and professing to be supported by all the family papers which could be
made available for such a purpose . Such a large increase to our stock of writing about Shelley , if
not to our knowledge of him , appears to prove that there was something in this poet ' s personal character , something in the impression
he made upon his contemporaries , which the world would not willingly let die . And so in truth it is . Shelley was a man who
very early adopted distinct principles of action ; principles which he matured and modified , but never essentially changed . To his
theory of life he clung with an instructive pertinacity which would probably have made him , as yoars advanced , into a worldly as well
as a spiritual power . At war with many of the conventions of society , he had in him
the practical insight which told him in what directions society itself must inevitably change ; and it is because Englishmen , forty years
after his death , are actually working out in their social and political
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/48/