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• Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

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  Guilt, Atheism, Modesty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.12, Booklassic

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• I have drunken deep of joy.

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  Joy

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1856). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.8

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• Jealousy's eyes are green.

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  Jealousy, Eye, Green

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.236

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• Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

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  Gold, Virtue, Scorn

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1856). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.81

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• The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

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  Enemy, Doctrine, Interpretation

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1972). “Selected Essays on Atheism”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

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  Simplicity, Innocence, Knows

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• And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
  Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
  Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
  The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.

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  Flower, Air, Glowing

  'The Sensitive Plant' (1820) pt. 1, l. 29

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• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

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  Power, Shadow, Unseen

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.73, JHU Press

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• Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

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  Paradise, Exile

  "Julian and Maddalo" l. 57 (1818)

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• Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

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  Wall, Lying, Ocean

  'Lines written amongst the Euganean Hills' (1818) l. 90

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• What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

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  Thinking, Garlic, Young

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1912). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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• February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

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  Sea, Heaven, Mountain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

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  Hope, Clay, Cold

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.575

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• Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

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  War, Solitude, Thee

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1816). “Alastor, or The spirit of solitude, &c., ed. by H.B. Forman”, p.43

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• The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

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  Night, Clouds, Shadow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.193

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• Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

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  Children, Believe, Water

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• The flood of time is rolling on;
  We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone
  To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream.
  Have ye done well?

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  Time, Rolling, Gone

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.94

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• My father Time is weak and gray
  With waiting for a better day;
  See how idiot-like he stands,
  Fumbling with his palsied hands!

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  Time, Father, Hands

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

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  Atheist, Passion, Eye

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1810, Delphi Classics

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• Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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  Pain, Expression, Sorrow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

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  Kissing, Long, Lasts

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Adonais [ed. by H.B. Forman. Titlepage reprod. from the 1821 ed.].”, p.19

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• Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

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  Rain, Flower, Sound

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1832). “The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Third Edition”, p.218

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• I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

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  Wise, Mistress, Doctrine

  'Epipsychidion' (1821) l. 149

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• To hope till hope creates
  From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

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  Hope, Wrecks, Unbound

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 570

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• Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

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  Work, Heart, Suffering

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.831, Delphi Classics

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