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" While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. "
The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought ... - Page 371
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...should he, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead : I call'd on poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : I saw them not. When musing...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...should be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through men. CYCLOPS. calTd on poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : 1 saw them not When musing...
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The Shelley Papers: Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 200 pages
...hearing, all life, all mind, self-existent," &c. Thence arose the first germ of Shelley's scepticism. And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. Burgher's tale of ' Leonora' was an especial favourite with him : he had also procured the splendid...
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Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 196 pages
...hearing, all life, all mind, self-existent," &c. Thence arose the first germ of Shelley's scepticism. And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. Burgher's tale of ' Leonora' was an especial favourite with him : he had also procured the splendid...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with His Life, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' n,ai,ya listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : I saw them not : When musing deeply on the lot Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing...
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The Hobart Town Magazine, Volume 2

1834 - 374 pages
...owns also that such are his sentiments : — " While yet a boy I sought for Ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin. And starlight...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead." This age is incredulous ; a powerful scepticism prevails, and people will not be convinced of the existence...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2

1835 - 842 pages
...sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, Anil itarligiil wood, willi fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the...called on poisonous names with which our youth is tod : 1 was not heard : 1 saw them not. "When musing deeply on the lot Of life at that sweet time when...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 19

Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 pages
...pursuing all the fancies it created and nurtured. "While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. "When musing deeply; on the lot of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things...
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The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]., Volume 5

1836 - 352 pages
...cave- and ruin, And star-iight wood, wffii fearfnl steps pursnitig Hopes ot' high talk with the deputed dead : I called on poisonous names, with which our youth is fed. I was not beard : I saw them not. " I dare not say I am not superstitious now : I should not like to disbelieve...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' many a listeningchamber,eave,and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing...dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth I was not heard, I saw them not ; [is fed : When musing deeply on the lot Of life, at that sweet time...
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