SHELLEY'S WORKS IN VERSE AND PROSE

VOLUME VIII

How delightful a picture, even if it be not true! How magnificent is the conception which this bold theory suggests to the contemplation, even if it be no more than the imagination of some sublimest and most holy poet, who, impressed with the loveliness and majesty of his own nature, is impatient and discontented with the narrow limits which his imperfect life and the dark grave have assigned for ever as his melancholy portion.

THE WORKS

OF

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

IN VERSE AND PROSE

NOW FIRST BROUGHT TOGETHER

WITH MANY PIECES NOT BEFORE PUBLISHED

EDITED

With Prefaces Notes and Appendices

BY

HARRY BUXTON FORMAN

IN EIGHT VOLUMES

EIGHTH VOLUME-PROSE IV

LONDON

REEVES AND TURNER 196 STRAND

1880