[134]Ibid, VII; "The Excursion," book 4; "Despondency Corrected," 149.
[135]Ibid, last lines of book 5, "The Pastor," 20.
[136]See also the novels of Godwin, "Caleb Williams" and others.
[137]"Queen Mab," and notes. At Oxford Shelley issued a kind of thesis, calling it "On the Necessity of Atheism."
[138]Some time before his death, when he was twenty-nine, he said, "If I die now, I shall have lived as long as my father."
[139]See in Shelley's Works, 1853, "The Witch of Atlas, The Cloud, To a Sky-lark," the end of "The Revolt of Islam, Alastor," and the whole of "Prometheus."
[140]"The Cloud," c. III. 502.
[141]Ibid. c. IV. 503.
[142]Shelley's Works, 1853, "The Sensitive Plant," 490.
[143]"Our life is turned out of her course, whenever man is made an offering, a sacrifice, a tool, or implement, a passive thing employed as a brute mean."—Wordsworth, "The Excursion."