| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...beautiful, which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagino intently and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others ; the paina and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 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. it is on that power of undervaluing nobody, and no attainments... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853 - 434 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... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 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 of another, and of many others : the pains aud pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination... | |
| 1857 - 656 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." " The lunatic, the lover,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 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 poetrj administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." — Essay* and Letters,... | |
| Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 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,... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...others: 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. ip 16. we should now deem the offspring of sheer ima- CHAPTER gination,... | |
| Roses - 1867 - 172 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." I hi nl SCOTLAND IN J796... | |
| Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 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." EXERCISE 1. — Define... | |
| |