 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 312 pages
...of moraJa-JaUove ; or ,c-^ .; a going out of our own nature, and an identification 6I"burselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, • . ••...• good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; VT"** ' he must put himself in the place of another and of f many others ; the pains and pleasures... | |
 | Andrew Cecil Bradley - 1909 - 422 pages
...for want of love. And love is 'a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action or person not our own.' 'A man,' therefore, 'to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensively.' And poetry ministers to... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 304 pages
...secret of morals is love ; oT a going out of our own nature, and an identification ^ of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man^tQ_be^reatly/ •good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bodleian Library - 1910 - 160 pages
...great secret of morals is Love ; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry f. 64 v rev. administers to the effect by acting upon the cause. Poetry... | |
 | James Thomson - 1910 - 156 pages
...identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person [? passion], not our own. A man to be greatly good, must imagine...and pleasures of his species must become his own." — Shelley : " Defence of Poetry." Exquisitely applicable to Shelley himself, this is no less exquisitely... | |
 | James Thomson - 1910 - 156 pages
...identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person [? passion], not our own. A man to be greatly good, must imagine...pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."—Shelley: "Defence of Poetry." Exquisitely applicable to Shelley himself, this is no less exquisitely... | |
 | Andrew Beaumont Robertson - 1911 - 168 pages
...to be the result of great Art. " Listen again to Shelley : " ' A man to be greatly good,' he says, c must imagine intensely and comprehensively : he must...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry adminsters to the effect by acting upon the cause.' " This profound truth... | |
 | 1912 - 842 pages
...and good man. In his defense of poetry, Shelly expresses himself in these terms: "A man, to be truly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively;...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination, and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." This all too brief... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1913 - 186 pages
...secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action or person, not our own." Shelley was always searching for love ; and, although he knew well, through his study of Plato, the... | |
 | Edgar Frederick Carritt - 1914 - 332 pages
...everything has a We of its own and that we are all One Life." 1 And, less metaphysically, Shelley : 2 " A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause. . . . Poetry strengthens... | |
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The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively... 
