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" But let no one suppose that a want of humour and a self-delusion such as Shelley's have no effect upon a man's poetry. The man Shelley, in very truth, is not entirely sane, and Shelley's poetry is not entirely sane either. The Shelley of actual life is... "
The Works of Matthew Arnold - Page 186
by Matthew Arnold - 1903
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The Westminster Review, Volume 157

1902 - 742 pages
...psychological analysis, brutal as it may seem. Shelley, whom Matthew Arnold felicitously described as " a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," is regarded by Mr. Salt as a Pioneer of Humanitarianism. 2 The chief merit in the latter's little pamphlet...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 95

1905 - 880 pages
...vainly in his speech, and touching nothing" (one thinks of Arnold's characterization of Shelley as "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," which, in its turn, may call to mind Lowell's comparison of Shelley's genius to a St. Elmo's fire,...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 39

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1895 - 588 pages
...field of pure abstractions. Shelley too was in the void (the figure is borrowed from Joubert's), ' a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.' Or again, Marcus Aurelius, had he known the Christian writings, would have ' found in the Gospel of...
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Time, Volume 19

1889 - 234 pages
...convictions, and presses them homo to good purpose. Equally true is the ring of his verdict on Shelly as a " beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. The final essays on names that are the latest vogue of culture, Tolstoi and Amiel, are admirahle, and...
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Appletons' Journal, Volume 10

1881 - 692 pages
...their contemporaries ; either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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Poetry of Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 326 pages
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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Poetry of Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 pages
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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Poetry of Byron, chosen by M. Arnold

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 43

1881 - 534 pages
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 154

1882 - 598 pages
...their contemporaries ; either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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