The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry.
that human art or nature yields, which wealth should purchase not,' come as silently to an end.
He was always, indeed in chief, a witness for that 'power unappealable.' Maddalo, in Julian and Maddalo, says that the soul is powerless, and can only, like a 'dreary bell hung in a heaven-illumined tower, toll our thoughts and our desires to meet round the rent heart and pray'; but Julian, who is Shelley himself, replies, as the makers of all religions have replied—
'Where is the beauty, love and truth we seek
But in our minds? And if we were not weak,
Should we be less in deed than in desire?'
while Mont Blanc is an intricate analogy to affirm that the soul has its sources in 'the secret strength of things,' 'which governs thought and to the infinite heavens is a law.' He even thought that men might be immortal were they sinless, and his Cythna bids the sailors be without remorse, for all that live are stained as they are. It is thus, she says, that time marks
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