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The Poet's Father--Shelley's Birth and Birth-Chamber--Miss Hellen Shelley's Recollections--The Child-Shelley's Pleasant Fiction--His Aspect at Tender Age--His Description of his own Nose--The Indian-Ink Sketch--Miss Curran's 'Daub'-- Williams's Water-Colour Drawing--Clint's Composition-- Engravings of 'The Daub' and 'The Composition'--The Poet's Likeness in Marble--Shelley and Byron--Peacock and Hogg on Shelley's Facial Beauty--The Colnaghi Engraving.