 You should have known Shelley', said Byron, 'to feel how much I must regret him. He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius,...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 3521834Full view - About this book
 | 1831
...Byron, •who thus describes him : " He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested...men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to simplicity, as rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine,... | |
 | 1832 - 598 pages
...to feel how much I must regret him. He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested...and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter. He had a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly-wisdom. I have seen nothing... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 pages
...of genius, joined to a simplicity, as rare as it is admirable. He had formed himself a beau idéal of all that is fine, highminded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter. He had a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly-wisdom. I have seen nothing... | |
 | 1833 - 460 pages
...and least worldly-minded person I ever met with ; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all olher men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to...and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter. He had a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly wisdom. I have seen nothing... | |
 | 1833 - 462 pages
...amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met with ; fall of delicacy, disinterested be» youd all other men, and possessing a degree of genius,...had formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is flne, high-minded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter. . He had a most... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...her, " to feel how much I regret him. He was the most gentle, most amiable, and It-axt worldly-minded person I ever met; full of delicacy, disinterested...and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter. He had a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly-wisdom. I have seen nothing... | |
 | 1840 - 588 pages
...all of his friends, says of Shelley, " He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldlyminded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested...highminded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal to the very letter." All accounts confirm it. No one ever knew him without loving him. Many love him... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1850 - 432 pages
...to feel how much I must regret him. He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested...as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau idial of all that is fine, high-minded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter.... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1851 - 254 pages
..."to feel how much I must regret him. He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested...formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine, high minded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter. He had a most brilliant... | |
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