 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,...  Shelley and His Writings - Page 281by Charles S. Middleton - 1858Full view - About this book
 | 1831
...full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to simplicity, as rare as it is admirable. He had formed...imagination, but a total •want of worldly wisdom." MEDWIN'S LIFE OF SHELLEY.* IT will be seen that by a curious, but a perfectly accidental, coincidence,... | |
 | 1832 - 598 pages
...worldly-minded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to a simplicity, as rare...a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly-wisdom. I have seen nothing like him, and never shall ngain, I am certain. I never can forget... | |
 | 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...a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly-wisdom. I have seen nothing like him, and never shall again, I am certain. I never can forget... | |
 | 1833 - 460 pages
...worldly-minded person I ever met with ; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all olher men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to a simplicity as rare...nothing like him, and never shall again I am certain. I never can forget the night that his poor wife rushed into my room at Pisa, with a face pale as marble,... | |
 | 1833 - 462 pages
...worldly-minded person I ever met with ; fall of delicacy, disinterested be» youd all other men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to a simplicity as rare...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
...worldly-minded person I ever met; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to a simplicity, as rare...a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly-wisdom. I have seen nothing like him, and never shall again, I am certain. I never can forget... | |
 | 1834 - 754 pages
...best informed person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to a simplicity as rare...noble, and he acted up to this ideal, even to the letter. He had a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly wisdom. I have seen nothing... | |
 | 1834 - 724 pages
...best informed person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to a simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He bad formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine, high-minded, and noble, and he acted up to... | |
 | 1840 - 588 pages
...worldlyminded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to a simplicity as rare...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
...worldly-minded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to a simplicity, as rare...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.... | |
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