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...Reformation in the bud by carrying off Luther himself. Later on, about the end of the 18th century, the same Devil appeared to have become such a very active mover in the world, that he inspired a number of very similar poems among English poets. Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley all wrote short satires on English society founded on the same idea, that of the Devil visiting "his nice little farm the earth to see how his stock gets on," in which it is taken for granted that the earth, especially England, and still more especially the individual objects...
...There is, however, another library for the use of the boys, the first being too valuable for schoolboy use. Like all English schools, Eton boasts of a long list of celebrated graduates, too long to enumerate, and it will be sufficient to say that Horace Walpole, Chatham, Gray, Shelley, Hallam, the historian, and the Duke of Wellington, were all Eton boys...
...life. This is the reason why tragic experiences may have far more worth than experiences of mere placid contentment; for tragic situations often give a unity, an organism to life, that is missed in times of joyous contentment. This last point the lecturer illustrated from the Prometheus of Shelley, comparing the grandeur of the world of struggle in the early part of the play, with the comparative emptiness of the world after the triumph of Prometheus reduces, at the end of the third act, the whole of life to a mass of disconnected joys. This Shelley felt, and tried...
...House committee on elections yesterday disposed of the Alabama contested election case of Smith against Shelley, by the adoption of a resolution which declares that Mr. Shelley, the sitting member, is not entitled to the seat, and recommends that, in consequence of the death of the contestant, the seat be declared vacant...
...without an indefinable personal sense of terror, as if what he that night saw was impending over the life of every man, a sword hung by a thread. To his keen, sharp, sensitive temperament an apparition truly tragic was anywhere possible. And the phantasm which appeared to Shelley shortly before his death came from reading a weird drama by Calderon, - a work so rare as to be wellnigh inaccessible...