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...profound silence be preserved as possible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five min...

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...ris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... .... Massacre, For this I prayed, would on thy sleep have crept, T reason and Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust, And stifled thee, their minister. I know ... ...my brow Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free This world from its dark slavery, _70 That thou—O awful Lovelines... ...ed in Switzerland, July, 1816 (see date below). Printed at the end of the “History of a Six Weeks’ Tour” published by Shelley in 1817, and reprinted w... ...Shelley makes the following mention of this poem in his publication of the History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, and Letters from Switzerland: ‘The poem entit... ...etius, Pliny’s Letters, the Annals and Germany of Tacitus. In French, the “History of the French Revolution” by Lacretelle. He read for the first time...

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...ourney in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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