The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley [Vol. II of II]

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Author

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

Title

The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus,1897.

Credits

Tim Lindell, SF2001, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English prose literature

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67926

Release Date

April 27, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SHELLEY’S PROSE WORKS VOL. II.
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.A DEFENCE OF POETRY. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS.
8. 8.ON THE SYMPOSIUM, OR PREFACE TO THE BANQUET OF PLATO. — A Fragment.
9. 9.THE BANQUET.
10. 10.THE PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE
11. 11.THE BANQUET. — APOLLODORUS. — COMPANION. — APOLLODORUS. — COMPANION. — APOLLODORUS.
12. 12.ION; OR, OF THE ILIAD. — Socrates and Ion .
13. 13.MENEXENUS, OR THE FUNERAL ORATION. — Socrates and Menexenus .
14. 14.FRAGMENTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO . — V. ON THE DANGER OF THE STUDY OF ALLEGORICAL COMPOSITION (IN A LARGE SENSE) FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. — VIII.—THE UNCHANGEABLE NATURE OF GOD. — IX.—THE PERMANENCY OF WHAT IS EXCELLENT. — X.—AGAINST SUPERSTITIOUS TALES. — XI.—THE TRUE ESSENCE OF FALSEHOOD AND ITS ORIGIN. — XII.—AGAINST A BELIEF IN HELL. — XIII.—ON GRIEF. — XIV.—THE INFLUENCE OF EARLY CONSTANT IMITATION. — XV.—ON THE EFFECT OF BAD TASTE IN ART. — XVI.—AGAINST THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS. — XVII.—ON MEDICINE. — XVIII.—THE EFFECT OF THE DIETETIC SYSTEM. — XIX.—AGAINST WHAT IS FALSELY CALLED “KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD.”
15. 15.ON A PASSAGE IN CRITO. — [ Prefatory note by Mrs. Shelley. ]
16. 16.THE ASSASSINS. — CHAPTER I. — CHAPTER II. — CHAPTER III. — CHAPTER IV.
17. 17.ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.
18. 18.ON LIFE.
19. 19.ON A FUTURE STATE.
20. 20.SPECULATIONS ON METAPHYSICS. — I. THE MIND. — I.—WHAT METAPHYSICS ARE. ERRORS IN THE USUAL METHODS OF CONSIDERING THEM. — II.—DIFFICULTY OF ANALYSING THE HUMAN MIND. — III.—HOW THE ANALYSIS SHOULD BE CARRIED ON. — IV.—CATALOGUE OF THE PHENOMENA OF DREAMS, AS CONNECTING SLEEPING AND WAKING.
21. 21.FRAGMENTS. — SPECULATIONS ON MORALS. — I.—PLAN OF A TREATISE ON MORALS. — CHAPTER I. ON THE NATURE OF VIRTUE. — BENEVOLENCE. — JUSTICE. — CHAPTER II. — II.—MORAL SCIENCE CONSISTS IN CONSIDERING THE DIFFERENCE, NOT THE RESEMBLANCE, OF PERSONS. — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.GHOST STORIES. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — FRAGMENT FROM JOURNAL.
23. 23.LETTERS FROM ITALY.
24. 24.LETTERS FROM ITALY. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE — TO WILLIAM GODWIN. — TO MRS. SHELLEY — TO MRS. SHELLEY — TO MRS. SHELLEY — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — FOOTNOTES: — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE — TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. — FOOTNOTES: — TO LEIGH HUNT. [26] — FOOTNOTES: — TO MRS. GISBORNE. — TO HENRY REVELEY. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE. — TO HENRY REVELEY. — TO HENRY REVELEY. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE — TO MRS. SHELLEY — TO MRS. SHELLEY — TO THE EDITOR OF THE “QUARTERLY REVIEW.” [32] — TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE — TO HENRY REVELEY. — TO HENRY REVELEY. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE. — FOOTNOTES: — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE. — TO MRS. SHELLEY — TO MRS. SHELLEY — TO MRS. SHELLEY. — TO MRS. SHELLEY. — TO MRS. SHELLEY. — TO MRS. SHELLEY. — TO MRS. SHELLEY. — TO HORATIO SMITH. — TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE. — TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE. — TO —— [39] — TO MRS. SHELLEY — TO HORATIO SMITH — TO —— [40] — TO MRS. WILLIAMS — TO MRS. SHELLEY
25. 25.MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND LETTERS .
26. 26.A LETTER TO LORD ELLENBOROUGH,
27. 27.ADVERTISEMENT.
28. 28.LETTER. — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.PRINCE ALEXY HAIMATOFF. [45] — FOOTNOTES:
30. 30.BIBLIOGRAPHY ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS IN VERSE AND PROSE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
31. 31.THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHELLEY. — 1810. — 1811. — 1812. — 1813. — 1814. — 1816. — 1817. — 1818. — 1819. — 1820. — 1821. — 1822. — POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS.
32. 32.INDEX. — Transcriber’s Notes

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