Excerpt from Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Original Poems and Papers by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Now First Collected I can perceive no resemblance to Shelley in the misanthrope Mandeville, though it is generally understood that Godwin in tended that character as an idealism of Shelley, not of Shelley in the darker traits which led to crime, but to show how the most brilliant talents warped into a wrong direcu'on, counteract all the external advantages of life, and conduce to their pos sessor's misery. About the ...
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Excerpt from Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Original Poems and Papers by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Now First Collected I can perceive no resemblance to Shelley in the misanthrope Mandeville, though it is generally understood that Godwin in tended that character as an idealism of Shelley, not of Shelley in the darker traits which led to crime, but to show how the most brilliant talents warped into a wrong direcu'on, counteract all the external advantages of life, and conduce to their pos sessor's misery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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