...possession of which he walked in mental solitude, A phantom amongst men, companionless, ****** While his own thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey. And this habitual reserve, this constant conceal/ment of the better part of his nature beneath an '...

...garlands sere, their magic mantles rent." Eut Shelley's self-portraiture, his account of himself, as " A Pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked— a Power Curt round with weakness," is wonderfully trae ; nor could any hand but his own have painted so well...

...ART. Wan feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And hu owu thoughts, *long that rugged way, Punucd like raging hounds their father and their prey. A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swill— A IOTO in desolation masked; a power Girt round with weaknoM; it can scaree uplift The weight...

...garlands sere, their magic mantles rent." But Shelley's self-portraiture, his account of himself, as " A Pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift— A love in desolation masked — a 1'owur Girt round with weakness," is wonderfully true ; nor could any hand but his own have painted...

...storm Whose thunder is its knell. He, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness Actaeon-like ; and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour. It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow ;• — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ?...

...Whose thunder is its knell ; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...like raging hounds, their father and their prey." Every day I passed some hours with Byron, and very often my evenings with Shelley and Williams, so...

...Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell." — BYBON. " A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift ; A love in...desolation masked ; a power, Girt round with weakness.'' — — SHELLEY. We advance our tale a few months. It is a spring night, bright, warm, balmy, — a...

...naked loveliness Acteeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's-wilderness ; And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued...uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour ; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow ; — even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On...

...storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. XXXII. A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked ; — a Power Girt round...

...were more applicable than to himself; one who " Had gazed on nature's naked loveliness, Actseon-like, and now he fled astray, With feeble steps, o'er the...like raging hounds, their father and their prey." De Quincey was told, with sombre eloquence, of Lloyd's escape after some years of confinement, and...