Chapter VIII

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From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

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From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

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From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

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From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

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From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

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From this reading (8).--LONDON.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

speak to

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

anew

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading LONDON AND BRACKNELL.

used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

separated or at a distance in place or position or time

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

adopted in order to deceive

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

possessive form of “author” — writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

in the space, time, or range separating two things

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the time when something begins (especially life)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

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From this reading LONDON AND BRACKNELL.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a railcar where passengers ride

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

definite but not specified or identified

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

a place of worship that has its own altar

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

plural of “child” — a young person of either sex

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

occurring at or forming an end or termination

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

plural of “copy” — a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

communication by the exchange of letters

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

plural of “decline” — change toward something smaller or lower

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the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

a prescribed selection of foods

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday

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(often used in combination) having a specified direction

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

the state of being tense and feeling pain

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

aimless wandering from place to place

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

possessive form of “duke” — a British peer of the highest rank

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

an act that fails

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a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

about to be mentioned or specified

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

acknowledged as a supposition

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

light informal conversation for social occasions

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

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From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

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a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

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on condition that; in the event that

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

a distinctive influence

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inside something, or within a place, period, or state

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From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

possessive form of “kennedy” — 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)

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the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic

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immediately past

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a characteristic state or mode of living

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large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male

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the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

temporary living quarters

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the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center

From this reading LONDON AND BRACKNELL.

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the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

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used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

very unhappy; full of misery

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a form of address for a man

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From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

plural of “negotiation” — a discussion intended to produce an agreement

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

not any; not one

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

port city located in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay; headquarters of the Atlantic fleet of the United States Navy

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

a brief written record

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

plural of “note” — a brief written record

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

the month following September and preceding November

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

an organization to gain political power

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a racetrack for thoroughbred racing; site of the Preakness

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

plural of “place” — a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

past form of “print” — put into print

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

the trait of spending extravagantly

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a firm in the publishing business

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

plural of “quack” — an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

plural of “reminiscence” — a mental impression retained and recalled from the past

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

-ing form of “respect” — regard highly; think much of

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

gallery where works of art can be displayed

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

plural of “set” — a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

possessive form of “shelley” — English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a person who is owned by someone

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a male human offspring

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the season of growth

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

make square

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

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From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

any distinct time period in a sequence of events

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a public road from one place to another

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

in spite of the fact that

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

arousing affect

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

plural of “view” — a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

plural of “visit” — the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

at the time that

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Discomfort--Quacks and Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian Note--_Refutation of Deism_.

exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity

From this reading Anyhow, it is almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street, in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by him at that address.

produce a literary work

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.

not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth

From this reading If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address.