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Mathilda

CHAPTER XII
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50-57, and Part IX, ll.

207-208), the _Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_, and the first three acts of _Prometheus Unbound_.

The fourth act was written in the winter of 1819, but Demogorgon's words may already have been at least adumbrated before the beginning of November: To love and bear, to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
[75] Shelley had written, "Desolation is a delicate thing" (_Prometheus Unbound_, Act I, l.

772) and called the Spirit of the Earth "a delicate spirit" (_Ibid._, Act III, Sc.

iv, l.


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