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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

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.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...wings Speeded like thought upon the light of Heaven. The Body and the Soul united then, _615 A gentle start convulse... ...irth From common joy; which with the speechless feeling That led her there united, and shot forth From her far eyes a light of deep revealing, All but... ...lone would make your most kind and wise admonitions, on the subject of the economy of in- tellectual force, valuable to me. And, if I live, or if I se... ...es The Devil is a gentleman; At others a bard bartering rhymes For sack; a statesman spinning crimes; A swindler, living as he can; ... ... meetings, and would always Stand prating there of commerce, public faith, Economy, and unadulterate coin, And other topics, ultra-radical; ...

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...Contents PREFACE........................................................................................................4 ESSAY I: Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations; and the Distribution of the Gains of Commerce among the Countries of the Commercial World ..............................................................................................

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...T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . G... ...GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pe... ...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rdest things, 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or... ...n knights and squires confound, Or water all the quorum ten miles round? A statesman’s slumbers how this speech would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a th... ..., nor raised by servitude: To balance fortune by a just expense, Join with economy, magnificence; With splendour, charity; with plenty, health; Oh tea... ...d for wit! See under Ripley rise a new Whitehall, While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall; 379 While Wren with sorrow to the grave descends, 229... ... Button’s, and a justice of the peace.’—P . 379 ‘While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall:’ at the time when this poem was written, the banquetin...