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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. "
American Quarterly Review - Page 278
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...not ал thy shadow came ; Depart not, lest the grave should he, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through...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...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...not as thy shadow came ;* Depart not, lest the grave should be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. reet delight ULYSSES. This is a God who never injures men. CYCLOPS. : I calTd on poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : 1 saw them not When musing...
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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 Shelley Papers: Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin - Poets, English - 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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The Hobart Town Magazine, Volume 2

Tasmania - 1834 - 374 pages
...of the same opinion. The amiable and talented Shelley owns also that such are his sentiments : — " While yet a boy I sought for Ghosts, and sped Through...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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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,...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : I saw them not : When musing...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2

1835 - 842 pages
...only once especially alluded lo il. In his Hymn to ItitcUcctuat Mcavty we find these lines. While yel a boy I 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 departed dead : I called...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 2

1836 - 802 pages
...he has only once especially alluded to it. In his Hymn to Intellectual Beauty we find these lines. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through...listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, wilh fearful «cpe pursuing Hopes of high talk with the depart«! dead : I called on pnisonous names...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...not a> thy shadow came ; Depart not, lost the grave should be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and rain And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hope* of high talk with the departed dead : IcaU'don...
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Rural Sketches

Thomas Miller - Country life - 1839 - 390 pages
...upon the tip of his nose, and, spreading out his four fingers, remained silent. ; THE HAUNTED HOUSE. While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead : I called on poisonous names, with which our youth is fed. I was not heard : I saw them not. SHELLEY....
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