The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, from the original editions. Edited, prefaced, and annotated by R. H. Shepherd

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SHELLEY'S PROSE WORKS VOL. Large Paper Edition limited to 100 copies, of which this is No.-f?^..-r^.^?.^f????y^Lf^rr'v vtrfiy THE PROSE WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS EDITED, PREFACED, AND ANNOTATED BY RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. Hontjon CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY 'Baflantjme ■£>«*«* CALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON CONTENTS. PAGE A DEFENCE OF POETRY I ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS . . . -39 ON THE SYMPOSIUM 48 THE BANQUET 51 ION; OR, OF THE ILIAD II4 MENEXENUS ; OR, THE FUNERAL ORATION . . . I32 FRAGMENTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO . . 136 ON A PASSAGE IN CRITO I45 THE ASSASSINS I47 ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH . .... 167 ON LIFE 174 ON A FUTURE STATE iSo SPECULATIONS ON METAPHYSICS '■ The Mind 186 What Metaphysics are.

Errors in the usual Methods of Considering them 189 Difficulty of Analysing the Human Mind . . .190 CONTENTS. VI PAGE How the Analysis shoidd be carried on , . . 191 Catalogue of the Phenomena of Dreams, as connecting Sleeping and Waking 191 FRAGMENTS : — Speculations on Morals : — Plan of a Treatise on Morals 194 On the Nature of Virtue 1 96 Benevolence 197 Justice 201 Moral Science consists in considering the Difference, not the Resemblance, of Persons . . . 204 GHOST STORIES 208 Fragment from Journal . , . . . .215 LETTERS FROM ITALY : — To Thomas Love Peacock . - . , . . .221 To the Same 223 To the Same 227 To the Same ........ 228 To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne , 229 To William Godwin . . , . . .231 To Mrs. Shelley 233 To the Same ........ 236 To the Same , 239 To Thomas Love Peacock 241 To the Same ........ 244 To the Same 249 To the Same ........ 255 To the Same ........ 259 To the Same ........ 26S To the Same ........ 277 To the Same CONTENTS. vii PAGB To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne ..... 290 To Thomas Love Peacock ...... 291 To Leigh Hunt ........ 294 To Mrs. Gisborn\ ....... 296 To Henry Reveley ....... 299 To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne 301 To the Same 302 To Mrs. Gisborne 305 To Mr. John Gisborne 307 To Henry Reveley 3°9 To the Same 3 ' * To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne 312 To Mr. John Gisborne 313 To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne 3H To the Same ........ 3r4 To the Same . . • . . . . • 3'5 To the Same ........ 3X7 To Mrs. Shelley 3'9 To the Same 321 To the Editor of the " Quarterly Review " . . 322 To Mr. John Gisborne ...... 324 To Henry Reveley 32S To the Same 32° To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne 32f> To Mr. John Gisborne 327 To Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne 329 To the Same 329 To Mrs. Shelley 33° To the Same ........ 331 To the Same 332 To the Same 334 To the Same CONTENTS.

VIII PAGE To Mrs. Shelley 342 To the Same 342 To Horatio Smith 347 To Mr. John Gisborne ...... 350 To the Same 352 To 3S6 To Mrs. Shelley 358 To Horatio Smith ....... 359 To 361 To Mrs. Williams 363 To Mrs. Shelley 363 JVTISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND LETTERS : — A letter to Ij>rd Ellenborough 369 Prince Alexy Haimatoff ...... 387 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHELLEY ..... 397 405 INPFX TO THE PROSE WORKS wrealC CORDING to one mode of regarding those two bœ»\| classes of mental action, which are called reason and imagination, the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another, however produced ; and the latter, as mind acting upon those thoughts so as to colour them with its own light, and composing from them, as from elements, other thoughts, each containing within itself the principle of its own integrity.