 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 pages
...degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited, had they never lived. A little more nonsense would have been talked for...condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakspeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton, had ever existed ; if Raphael and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited, had they never lived. A little more nonsense would have been talked for a century or two ; and perhaps a few more men, womenjjmd childrcn.burnt as heretics. We might not at this moment have been congratulating each other... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited, had they never lived. A little more nonsense would have been talked for...condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakspeare, Calderón, Lord Bacon, nor Milton, had ever existed ; if Raphael and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 714 pages
...perception, for we find in his admirable Defence of Poetry, written in 1821, the following passage : "It exceeds all imagination to conceive what would...condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakspeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton, had ever existed ; if Raphael and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 pages
...degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited, had they never lived. A little more nonsense would have been talked for...condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shaksjicare, Caldcron, Lord Bacon, nor MilUm, had ever existed ; if Raphael and... | |
 | Charles Sotheran - 1876 - 80 pages
...degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited, had they never lived. A little more nonsense would have been talked for...other on the abolition of the Inquisition in Spain." The vast impetus, which these extraordinary geniuses gave to freedom in metaphysical strongholds, led... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1877 - 298 pages
...degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited had they never lived. A little more nonsense would have been talked for...condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakspeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton, had ever existed ; if Eaphael and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited, had they never lived. A little more nonsense would have been talked for...condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton, had ever existed ; if Raphael and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...degree of moral and intellectual improvement which the world would have exhibited, had they never lived. A little more nonsense would have been talked for...condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton, had ever existed; if Raphael and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Michael Rossetti - 1881 - 482 pages
...perception, for we find in his admirable Defence of Poetry, written in 1821, the following passage: " It exceeds all imagination to conceive what would...condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton, had ever existed ; if Raphael and... | |
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But it exceeds all imagination to conceive what would have been the moral condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton had ever existed... 
