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Excerpt from Comparison of Bodmer's Translation of Milton's Paradise Lost
T has we see that Shelley came of stock with a twist in the grain - knight-errant in the remote past, contentious, rebellious and loyal by turns, according to the time and the stress of conscience; and in later days leaping all barriers to bear away fair ladies. Of Sir Bysshe, his grandson declares that he behaved ill to his wives, was an atheist, and based his hopes on annihilation. But the estate was entailed; and the Baron's title would survive the annihilation of him who bore it. When 'we find Percy so descended, we have a rightto expect that a ?ower blooming on such a stock will give some token that there has been strange cross-fertilization in preparing its beauty - its singular beauty - and its exceptional tendencies of growth.
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