Makers of Literature Being Essays On Shelley Landor Browning Byron Arnold
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211 saddening retrospect of his own mind, and observe liow natural and simple he really was. No one has ever had the days of his youth so laid ojDen to the common gaze, and this is one charm of his personality, that we know him as a brother or a friend. The pages afford many happy anecdotes ; but one -can linger here only to mark the con- stant playfulness of Shelley, which was a bright element in his earlier career and not altogether absent in his Italian life. The passion for floating paper -...boats, which he indulged unweariedly, is well known ; but at all times he was ready for sport, and could even trifle with his dearest plans, as in the flotilla of bottles and aerial navy of fire-balloons, all loaded with revolutionary pamphlets, which he sent forth on the Dev- onshire coast. His running about the little garden, hand in hand with Harriet ; his im- personating fabulous monsters with Leigh Hunt's children, who begged him " not to do the horn ; " and his favorite sport with his little temporarily adopted Marlow girl, of placing her on the dining-table, and rush- ing with it across the long room, are in- stances that readily recur to mind, and illustrate the gayety and high spirits which 212 REMARKS ON SHELLEY.
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