“I hear this morning that the design which
certainly had been in contemplation, of burning my “fellow
serpent,” has been abandoned, and that he has been condemned to the
galleys. Lord Guildford is at Leghorn, and
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LIFE OF SHELLEY.
as your courier applied to me to know whether he
ought to leave your letter for him or not, I have thought it best, since this
information, to tell him to take it back.
Frederick North, fifth earl of Guilford (1766-1827)
Son of the prime minister; he was governor of Ceylon (1798-1805) and an enthusiastic
philhellene who founded the Ionian University at Corfu. He succeeded to the title in
1817.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
English poet, with Byron in Switzerland in 1816; author of Queen
Mab (1813), The Revolt of Islam (1817), The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound (1820), and Adonais (1821).
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Source Description:
Author: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869
Title:The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847).
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