The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . are somestanzas that beautifully exemplify Shelleyspeculiar style; as, for instance, the assertionof the intellectual empire which must be forever the inheritance of the country of Homer,Sophocles, and Plato: ** But Greece and her foundations areBuilt below the tide of war ;Based on the crystalline seaOf thought and its eternity.* And again, that philosophical truth felicitouslyimaged forth — ** Revenge and Wrong bring forth their kind :The foul cubs like their parents are ;Their den is in the guilty mind. And Conscience feeds them with despair.


The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . are somestanzas that beautifully exemplify Shelleyspeculiar style; as, for instance, the assertionof the intellectual empire which must be forever the inheritance of the country of Homer,Sophocles, and Plato: ** But Greece and her foundations areBuilt below the tide of war ;Based on the crystalline seaOf thought and its eternity.* And again, that philosophical truth felicitouslyimaged forth — ** Revenge and Wrong bring forth their kind :The foul cubs like their parents are ;Their den is in the guilty mind. And Conscience feeds them with despair.** The conclusion of the last chorus is amongthe most beautiful of his lyrics. The imageryis distinct and majestic; the prophecy, such aspoets love to dwell upon, the Regeneration ofMankind — and that regeneration reflecting 192 Note by Mrs. Shelley back splendour on the foregone time, fromwhich it inherits so much of intellectual wealth,and memory of past virtuous deeds, as mustrender the possession of happiness and peaceof tenfold 193 Fragments of an Unfinished Drama I


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