Shelley Synonyms

zhelē
English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Mary Shelley
  2. mary wollstonecraft shelley
  3. Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley
Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. percy bysshe shelley

Shelley Sentence Examples

  • In 1841 Edward Moxon was found guilty of the publication of a blasphemous libel (Shelley's Queen Mab), the prosecution having been instituted by Henry Hetherington, who had previously been condemned to four months' imprisonment for a similar offence, and wished to test the law under which he was punished.

  • It is generally supposed that he writes with a lover's extravagance about this lady's powers when he compares her with Shelley and Carlyle.

  • For other countries in the Levant there are Canon Tristram's Fauna and Flora of Palestine (4to, 1884) and Captain Shelley's Handbook to the Birds of Egypt (8vo, 1872).

  • Shelley's tragedy is well known as a magnificent piece of writing, although the author adopts a purely fictitious version of the story.

  • In addition to th e se residents or natives of the locality, Shelley, Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clough, Crabb Robinson, Carlyle, Keats, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Mrs Hemans, Gerald Massey and others of less reputation made longer or shorter visits, or were bound by ties of friendship with the poets already mentioned.

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