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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]

Chapter 95: MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND LETTERS.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A collected volume of essays, letters, translations, and fragments that combines literary criticism, philosophical inquiry, and political reflection. Major essays defend the creative imagination, explore classical literature and Athenian arts, and probe metaphysical questions about mind, dreams, and a possible future state, while moral pieces address virtue, justice, and the punishment of death. An extended sequence of letters from Italy blends travel description, personal friendship, and engagement with contemporary debates. Miscellaneous fragments and translation work display experimental thought and unfinished plans, presenting a wide-ranging portrait of the author’s prose concerns and intellectual methods.

MISCELLANEOUS
ESSAYS AND LETTERS.

A LETTER
TO
LORD ELLENBOROUGH,

Occasioned by the Sentence which he passed on
Mr. D. I. EATON,
As Publisher of
The Third part of Paine’s age of reason.

Deorum offensa, Diis curæ.

—It is contrary to the mild spirit of the Christian Religion, for no sanction can be found under that dispensation which will warrant a Government to impose disabilities and penalties upon any man, on account of his religious opinions. [Hear, Hear.]

Marquis Wellesley’s Speech. Globe, July 2.