Excerpt from Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Bysshe Shelley. The French nation was in a ferment with vague prognostications, fears, and hopes, and all Europe vibrated with the electric breath of revolution which emanated from the human volcano of Paris. Even in England, guarded by the sea from the immediate influx of a more ungovernable tide than that of Ocean, men spoke with bated breath of what had happened and what was yet on the forefront of the time. Those who trace in mortal lives the conjunction of starry influences will find food for suggestion in the fact that Shelley, the poet of. Rebellion, was born at a moment when all the stars of tumult and revolt fought in their courses against the established order of things spiritual and temporal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.