LETTERS FROM ABROAD, TRANSLATIONS AND FRAGMENTS, BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. EDITED BY MRS. SHELLEY. "The POET, it is true, is the son of his time; but pity for him if he is its pupil, or even its favourite! Let some beneficent deity snatch him when a suckling from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time; that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his century; not however to delight it by his presence, but dreadful, like the son of Agamemnon, to purify it."-SCHILLER. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. MDCCCXL. |