"Look, the figures are walking with a sauntering and idle pace, and talking to each other as they walk, as you may have seen a younger and an elder boy at school, walking in some grassy spot of the play-ground with that tender friendship for each other which the age inspires." These extracts prove beyond all question that the first contact with the outer world called into activity two of Shelley's strongest moral qualities--his hatred of tyranny and brutal force in any form, and his profound sentiment of friendship.

The admiring love of women, which marked him no less strongly, and which made him second only to Shakespere in the sympathetic delineation of a noble feminine ideal, had been already developed by his deep affection for his mother and sisters.
It is said that he could not receive a letter from them without manifest joy.
"Shelley," says Medwin, "was at this time tall for his age, slightly and delicately built, and rather narrow-chested, with a complexion fair and ruddy, a face rather long than oval.

His features, not regularly handsome, were set off by a profusion of silky brown hair, that curled naturally.

The expression of his countenance was one of exceeding sweetness and innocence.

His blue eyes were very large and prominent.
They were at times, when he was abstracted, as he often was in contemplation, dull, and as it were, insensible to external objects; at others they flashed with the fire of intelligence.