"By the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs" (Mary Shelley, Frankenstein)

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Algernon Charles Swinburne, a Balliol man of brilliance who studied under Jowett, was in possession of uneven talents. A true Shelleyan, here is one of his enjoyably worst, utterly dreadful, poems to that 'poet beloved above all other poets, being beyond all other poets'.

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‘Nothing of us but what must suffer a sea-change.’

— Mary Shelley, February 14 1822.

Mary quotes a line from The Tempest.

Trelawny had called with news of building Shelley’s new boat, saying, “Oh! we must all embark, all live aboard; we will all ‘suffer a sea-change.”

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Find your tribe and love them hard! This fun friendship scene is by Shelley Dieterichs, check out her full at https://t.co/pCOOicUJXk https://t.co/r15WAY1Htk

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The time that was, is, and will be, presses upon you, and, standing the centre of a moving circle, you “slide giddily as the world reels.”

— Mary Shelley, February 7 1822.

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Francis Shelley my love??

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Charles Dickens was born 1812. In 1845, he visited Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery.
'To an English traveller,' Dickens notes, this marks the graves of Shelley and Keats, ''whose name is writ in water' that shines brightly in the landscape of a calm Italian night.'

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El 1 de febrero de 1851 muere la escritora británica Mary Shelley.

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"Tú me diste estas emociones, pero no me dijiste cómo usarlas" (Frankenstein)

en 1851 muere novelista, narradora y dramaturga.
Autora de la novela gótica o el moderno
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“It is a scene terrifically desolate. In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken… The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains...”

—Mary Shelley, died 1851

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When in ....COLOSSEUM /7 1/2
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'At the hour of noon...an old man accompanied by a girl, apparently his daughter, entered the Coliseum...
They...selected a fallen column for their seat ...and sate as in a silent contemplation of the scene'

🖋️Shelley 'The Coliseum' ⬇️2/2

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Mary Shelley has SEEN SOME SHIT

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“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk a shattered visage lies' --Shelley, Ozymandias

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Shelley The Birthday Balloon
A birthday gift for

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Veronica Carlson Barbara Shelley Caroline Munro Barbara Crampton

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