 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. ,A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause."—Essays and Letters,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...hereafter, as now, he would form a portion of that * "A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place...and pleasures of his species must become his own." — A Defence of Poetry. whole — and a jjortion less imperfect, less suffering, than the shackles... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 pages
...greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of mother and of many others ; the pains, and pleasures of his species must become his own." — ' De/ence of Poetry. •whole — and a portion less imperfect, less suffering, than the shackles... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 292 pages
...: the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." — Essays and Letters, vol i., p. 16. I would not willingly say anything after perorations like these... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." — Essays and Letters,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...they were viewed by himself. Shelley says, that a man " to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place...and pleasures of his species must become his own." Now, the pains and pleasures of the species Wordsworth desires to make his own ; but in making them... | |
 | 1848 - 612 pages
...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively : he must put himself in the place...many others : the pains and pleasures of his species, е Properly speaking, wisdom ¡nсЫеи goodness ;— for the pood alone are wise ; bu't the word... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively : he must put himself in the place...many others : the pains and pleasures of his species, # Properly speiikinc, wisdom includes goodness; — for the pood alone are wise ; bat the word has... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." This critical maxim is... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pages
...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." This critical maxim is... | |
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The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, 
