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272  “Mr. Byshe [
sic
] Shelley”: ibid., 325.

272  “Mr. Shelley is unfortunately”: ibid., 329.

272  “Shelley the great Atheist”: Norman, 22.

272  “To lose an eldest son”: ibid., 19.

272  “That you should be so overcome”: ibid., 20.

273  “All that I expressed”: ibid., 20-21.

273  “He was the most gentle”: Lovell,
Lady Blessington’s,
52-53.

274  “And so here I am”: LMWS, I, 252.

274  “Drive my dead thoughts”: PWPBS, 579.

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275  “Now fierce remorse”: JMWS, 491.

276  “What a scene”: ibid., 435.

277  “But [except] for my Child”: ibid., 428.

277  “romantic beyond romance”: Williams, John, 94.

277  “Oh my beloved Shelley”: JMWS, 429-30.

277  “No one seems to understand”: ibid., 440-41.

277  “No one ever writes”: LMWS, I, 290.

277  “I would, like a dormouse”: ibid., 288.

277  “I am a lonely unloved thing”: JMWS, 448.

278  “I cannot write”: ibid., 462.

279  “Frankenstein is universally”: ibid., n457.

280  “To examine the causes”: Florry, 139.

280  “I was much amused”: LMWS, I, 378.

280  “attack [on] the Christian faith,” etc.: Florry, 5.

281  “lost divinity”: JMWS, 443.

281  “But were it not”: LMWS, I, 254.

281  “God has still one blessing”: ibid., I, 297.

281  “queer, unamiable and strange”: Norman, 55.

281  “The wisest & best”: JMWS, 483.

282  “I was worth something then”: JMWS, 471, 474.

282  “His life was spent”: PWPBS, xiii.

282  “I am convinced”: ibid., xiv.

283  “Sir T. writhes”: LMWS, I, 444.

283  “All contemplative existence”: Minta, 180.

283  “Shelley has more poetry”: Lovell,
Medwin’s Conversations,
235.

284  “I do not think”: JMWS, 439-40.

285  “The isles of Greece”: PLB, 695.

285  
Blackwood’s
and
Literary Gazette
reviews: Trueblood, 49-50.

285  “Yes! A grassy bed”: Franklin, 179.

286  “that he considered”: Gamba, 12.

286  “I was a fool”: Marchand, III, 1123.

287  “Is the Girl imaginative”: BLJ, XI, 47.

287  “Both [Byron’s] character”: Minta, 210.

287  “Be assured, My Lord”: Marchand, III, 1140.

288  “I especially dread”: Minta, 232.

289  “enduring the tedious details”: Longford, 200.

290  “’Tis time this heart”: PLB, 112.

291  “It [the seizure] was very painful”: BLJ, XI, 113.

291  “Lyon, thou art an honest”: Longford, 206.

291  “became pensive . . . fortune-teller in Scotland”: Marchand, III, 1212.

292  “Come, you are”: ibid., 1219.

292  “I fancy myself a Jew”: ibid., 1217.

292  “I want to sleep now”: ibid., 1228.

292  “the congenital malconformation”: ibid., 1231.

293  “All Greece . . . grave of a great man”: Minta, 275.

293  “With great grief”: Franklin, 177.

293  “This [Byron’s death] then was the”: JMWS, 477-78.

294  “not a vestige”: Eisler, 471.

294  “it went to my heart”: LMWS, I, 436-37.

294  “honor and fame”: MacCarthy, 539.

295  “Missolonghi groaned”: Marchand, III, 1235-36.

295  “People take for gospel”: Lovell,
Blessington’s Conversations,
220.

296  “I take a row on the lake”: Lovell,
His Very Self,
183-84.

296  Lady Caroline’s sister: Matthews, XXXII, 258.

297  “At the age of twenty six”: JMWS, 478-79.

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298  “Alone—alone—all”: JMWS, 573.

298  “The last man”: ibid., 476-77.

298  “On this very day”: LMWS, I, 438.

299  “Tears fill my eyes”: JMWS, 485.

299  “I am under a cloud”: LMWS, I, 438.

300  “Such writers as Byron”: Norman, 97.

300  “vow I made”: ibid., 72.

300  “his Satanic Majesty”: Lovell,
Medwin’s,
12.

300  “a source of great pain”: LMWS, I, 455.

301  “very gentle and feminine”: Feldman, 612.

301  “very agreeable”: JMWS, 501-02.

301  “seems to have known”: Feldman, 613.

301  “The great charm of the work”: LMWS, II, 101-02.

302  “the hope and consolation”: ibid, I, 495.

302  “Loveliest Janey”: ibid., I, 556.

302  “My friend has proved false”: JMWS, 502-03.

302  “I need companionship”: ibid., 498.

303  “Though I was conscious”: LMWS, II, 25-26.

303  “emphatically a man”: TLM, 35.

303  “his sensibility and courtesy”: ibid., 20.

303  “You know me”: LMWS, II, 72.

304  “Shelley’s life so far”: ibid, II, 194.

304  “What a folly is it”: JMWS, 489.

304  “I stick to
Frankenstein
”: CC, II, 341.

305  “If you would but know”: ibid., 342.

306  “in this world”: LMWS, I, 379.

306  “And now, once again”: F1831, 23.

306  “While I followed”: ibid., 45.

307  “Even now, as I commence”: ibid., 38.

307  “Destiny was too potent”: ibid., 46.

307  “The power of Destiny”: LMWS, I, 572.

307  “a deformed and abortive creation”: F1831, 46.

308  “He came to the university”: ibid., 67.

308  “I lived principally in the country”: ibid., 20.

308  “Teach him to think for himself?”: Mellor, 211.

309  “In person he is”: LMWS, II, 209.

309  “One day I said to him”: ibid.

309  “When I mentioned Tennyson’s”: Norman, 220.

310  “Everything under the sun”: Grylls,
William Godwin,
240.

310  “In weighing well”: Norman, 30.

310  “most people felt of Mr. Godwin”: De Quincey, III, 25.

310  “O my God”: JMWS, 548-49.

311  “The great work of life”: JMWS, 559.

311  “It was a frightful”: Walling, 135.

311  “I almost think”: JMWS, 559.

312  “In the first place”: JMWS, 553-54.

312  “His reading was not”: PWPBS, 836-37.

313  “the beautiful and ineffectual angel”: Bann, 37.

313  “The far Alps were hid”: Shelley,
Rambles,
148.

314  “Preserve always a habit”: JMWS, 573.

315  “I had been resting”: Rolleston, 27-28.

317  “Goodnight—I will go look”: LMWS, I, 261.

317  “It is not”: Sunstein, 384.

317  “Were the fairest Paradise”: CC, II, 327.

318  “you were a mere girl”: ibid.

318  “If I was in Italy”: Moore, Doris, 446.

318  “She [Mary] has compromised”: Grylls,
Claire Clairmont,
254-55.

319  “Claire always harps”: LMWS, II, 271.

319  “Don’t go, dear”: Rolleston, 41.

319  “a slender and pallid”: Norman, 239.

320  “I would willingly think”: Gittings and Manton, vii.

320  “She passed her life”: ibid., 245.

320  “lovely old lady”: Graham, 754.

320  “I think Shelley would have”: ibid., 755.

320  “With all my heart and soul”: ibid., 767.

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