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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (3)
The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - 3 Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Reeves and Turner Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the orig... more »inal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: XLV. A JUNO.1 A statue of great merit. The countenance expresses a stern and unquestioned severity of dominion, with a certain sadness. The lips are beautiful -- susceptible of expressing scorn -- but not without sweetness in their beauty.2 Fine lips are never wholly bad, and never belong to the expression of emotions completely3 selfish -- lips being the seat of imagination. The drapery is finely conceived, and the manner in which the act of throwing back one leg is expressed in the diverging folds of the drapery of the left breast, fading in bold yet graduated lines into a skirt of it which descends from the right4 shoulder is admirably imagined. XLVI. A WOUNDED SOLDIER. An unknown figure. His arms are folded within his mantle. -- His countenance which may be a portrait is sad but gentle. XLVII. A YOUTH. A youth playing on a lyre -- one arm and leg is a restoration and there is no appearance of the head or arm belonging to it. The body and the right leg are of the most consummate beauty. It may or may not be an Apollo. 1 Medwin first gave this Note in in their beauty, and begin the next The Atheneeum for the 22nd of sentence thus -- With fine lips a September, 1832. Like the others person it. Bo given, it was reprinted in The In previous editions, wholly. Shelley Papers and Essays, Lettcrt 4 Medwin and Mrs. Shelley read, 4c. a skirt, al it descendi from the left Medwin and Mrs...« less