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...the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, — ' While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin. And starlight wood,...youth is fed : I was not heard — I saw them not." ' After supping on the horrors of the Minerva press, he was subject to strange and sometimes frightful...

...the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, — ' While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...youth is fed : I was not heard — I saw them not." 'After supping on the horrors of the Minerva press, be was subject to strange and sometimes frightful...

...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 ruin, / And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing il lo] »-s of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth II...

...be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. WTiile yet a boy T sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds and blossoming, Sudden, thy shadow fell on me ; I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy !...

...be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy T sought for ghosts, and sped Thro' many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds and blossoming, Sudden, thy shadow fell on me ; I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy !...

...yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And star-lit wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead." — Shelley — Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Compare the splendid passage in Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey,...

...yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And star-lit wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead." — ( Shelley — Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.) Compare the splendid passage in Wordsworth's Tintern...

...of startled and fascinated dread : " While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, aud sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of buds and blossoming, Sudden thy shadow fell on me ; 1 shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy ! I...

...moods of startled and fascinated dread: " While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood,...wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of buds and blossoming, Sudden thy shadow fell on me ; 1 shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy ! I...