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" It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. "
Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, - Page xv
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 360 pages
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things eccm, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed,...the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fur, And all sweet shapes and odours there. In truth have never pass'd away : Т is we, Ч is ours,...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...»tars do light, Found Badness, where it left delight, I dare not guess ; but in this life Of error, Than ever there was found a heart to do. But never...deed As — [Paules, suddenly recaUtctíng hirt!;. W i'loasant, if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. That...
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A Letter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor: On the ...

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1833 - 434 pages
...he should have the more wretched fate of being the founder of some new metaphysical theory, in which -Nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream — whereas, fortified at the outset with strong and manly conditions of thought, he may become a deliverer...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with His Life, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...guess ; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, AnJ we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed,...if one considers it, To own that death itself must he, Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fnir, And nil sweet shapes and odours...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...light, Found sadness, where it left delight, I dare not gness ; but in this life Of error, ignoranee and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest ereed, and yet Pleasant, if one eonsiders it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 254

1907 - 848 pages
...too much. Would any race have had the courage to start upon its way had it conceived death as real? it is a modest creed and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be LJke all the rest, a mockery. lt is a creed which springs from the very instinct of life. Two pelicans...
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...stars do light, Found sadness, where it left delight, I dare not guess ; but in this life Of error, ignorance and strife, Where nothing is, but all things...Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that 1аЛу fair, And all sweet shapes and odours there, In truth have never passed away : Tis we, 'tis...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: complete in one volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...stars do light, Found Badness, where it left delight, I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It ia a modest creed, and yet Pleiisanl, if one considers it. To own that death itself must be, Like all...
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The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volumes 1-4

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...stars do light, Found sadness, where it left delight, I dare not guess ; but in this life Of error, ignorance and strife, Where nothing is, but all things...Pleasant, if one considers it, To own that death itself muet be, Like all the rest, a mockery. That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes and...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 14

1835 - 606 pages
...we have some remarkable stanzas, two of which we quote ; the whole poem is a beautiful allegory. " It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant, if one considers it, To own that death itself must bo, Like all the rest, a mockery ! That garden sweet, that lady fair, And all sweet shapes and odours...
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