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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]
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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe On the Devil, and Devils is an essay by Shelley on the nature of the Devil.
Chapters (543)
- SHELLEY’S PROSE WORKS VOL. II.
- CONTENTS.
- A DEFENCE OF POETRY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS.
- ON THE SYMPOSIUM, OR PREFACE TO THE BANQUET OF PLATO.
- A Fragment.
- THE BANQUET.
- THE PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE
- THE BANQUET.
- APOLLODORUS.
- COMPANION.
- APOLLODORUS.
- COMPANION.
- APOLLODORUS.
- ION; OR, OF THE ILIAD.
- Socrates and Ion.
- MENEXENUS, OR THE FUNERAL ORATION.
- Socrates and Menexenus.
- FRAGMENTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO.
- V. ON THE DANGER OF THE STUDY OF ALLEGORICAL COMPOSITION (IN A LARGE SENSE) FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
- VIII.—THE UNCHANGEABLE NATURE OF GOD.
- IX.—THE PERMANENCY OF WHAT IS EXCELLENT.
- X.—AGAINST SUPERSTITIOUS TALES.
- XI.—THE TRUE ESSENCE OF FALSEHOOD AND ITS ORIGIN.
- XII.—AGAINST A BELIEF IN HELL.
- XIII.—ON GRIEF.
- XIV.—THE INFLUENCE OF EARLY CONSTANT IMITATION.
- XV.—ON THE EFFECT OF BAD TASTE IN ART.
- XVI.—AGAINST THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS.
- XVII.—ON MEDICINE.
- XVIII.—THE EFFECT OF THE DIETETIC SYSTEM.
- XIX.—AGAINST WHAT IS FALSELY CALLED “KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD.”
- ON A PASSAGE IN CRITO.
- [Prefatory note by Mrs. Shelley.]
- THE ASSASSINS.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.
- ON LIFE.
- ON A FUTURE STATE.
- SPECULATIONS ON METAPHYSICS.
- I. THE MIND.
- I.—WHAT METAPHYSICS ARE. ERRORS IN THE USUAL METHODS OF CONSIDERING THEM.
- II.—DIFFICULTY OF ANALYSING THE HUMAN MIND.
- III.—HOW THE ANALYSIS SHOULD BE CARRIED ON.
- IV.—CATALOGUE OF THE PHENOMENA OF DREAMS, AS CONNECTING SLEEPING AND WAKING.
- FRAGMENTS.
- SPECULATIONS ON MORALS.
- I.—PLAN OF A TREATISE ON MORALS.
- CHAPTER I. ON THE NATURE OF VIRTUE.
- BENEVOLENCE.
- JUSTICE.
- CHAPTER II.
- II.—MORAL SCIENCE CONSISTS IN CONSIDERING THE DIFFERENCE, NOT THE RESEMBLANCE, OF PERSONS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- GHOST STORIES.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- FRAGMENT FROM JOURNAL.
- LETTERS FROM ITALY.
- LETTERS FROM ITALY.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE
- TO WILLIAM GODWIN.
- TO MRS. SHELLEY
- TO MRS. SHELLEY
- TO MRS. SHELLEY
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- FOOTNOTES:
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE
- TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
- FOOTNOTES:
- TO LEIGH HUNT.[26]
- FOOTNOTES:
- TO MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO HENRY REVELEY.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
- TO HENRY REVELEY.
- TO HENRY REVELEY.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE
- TO MRS. SHELLEY
- TO MRS. SHELLEY
- TO THE EDITOR OF THE “QUARTERLY REVIEW.”[32]
- TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE
- TO HENRY REVELEY.
- TO HENRY REVELEY.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
- TO MRS. SHELLEY
- TO MRS. SHELLEY
- TO MRS. SHELLEY.
- TO MRS. SHELLEY.
- TO MRS. SHELLEY.
- TO MRS. SHELLEY.
- TO MRS. SHELLEY.
- TO HORATIO SMITH.
- TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
- TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
- TO ——[39]
- TO MRS. SHELLEY
- TO HORATIO SMITH
- TO ——[40]
- TO MRS. WILLIAMS
- TO MRS. SHELLEY
- MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND LETTERS.
- A LETTER TO LORD ELLENBOROUGH,
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- LETTER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- PRINCE ALEXY HAIMATOFF.[45]
- FOOTNOTES:
- BIBLIOGRAPHY ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS IN VERSE AND PROSE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
- THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHELLEY.
- 1810.
- 1811.
- 1812.
- 1813.
- 1814.
- 1816.
- 1817.
- 1818.
- 1819.
- 1820.
- 1821.
- 1822.
- POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS.
- INDEX.
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