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" Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. "
The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge - Page 582
edited by - 1862
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, :he type of the highest perfection of moral and intelectual ur hearts have sold. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountain ous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...worse. But Promethcus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfeetion of moral and intelleetual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caraeal la, among the flowery...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 396 pages
...fiction with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the trueet motiveĀ« to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...restoration of Saturnian times is anticipated. On this view is Shelley's drama founded " Prometheusis the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends." With the exception of a passage which we have before...
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...Hut Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the hiphcst perfection of moral and intellectual iiatun-, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountmJnnns ruins of the Rathe of Caracal la, among the flowery...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...restoration of Saturnian times is anticipated. On this view is Shelley's drama founded. " Prometheus is the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends." With the exception of a passage which we have before...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...restoration of Saturnian times is anticipated. On this view is Shelley's drama founded " Prometheus is the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends." With the exception of a passage which we have before...
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The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volumes 1-4

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...fiction with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by tile purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon...
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Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-century in Six Lectures

David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...lyrical drama in four acts, was intended, as we are told by Shelley himself, to make his hero "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...the truest motives to the best and noblest ends." It hence differs from the lost drama of ^Eschylus on the same subject, whose purpose was merely to...
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Shelley and His Writings, Volume 2

Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 404 pages
...Prometheus, and has given to him a higher and more exalted sphere of action. In his hands he becomes the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. He is exempt from every taint of ambition, envy, or revenge, or the desire of personal aggrandisement,...
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