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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ... - Page 215
edited by - 1850
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 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 adminis--,26 ters to the effect by acting upon the cause. — Essays. All of...
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Irish Monthly, Volume 43

1915 - 826 pages
...it is the ennobling of the highest faculties of man by giving them worthy and pleasurable exercise. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect "namely, moral goodj by acting upon the cause [the imagination;. Poetry enlarges the circumference...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 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 nuuiy others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of...
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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1876 - 420 pages
...into prose and verse is inadmissible in accurate philosophy." — SHELLEY, A Defence of Poetry. i. "The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting on the cause." — SHELLEY, A Defence of Poetry. 3. " [The discussion] was terminated by Socrates forcing...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...exists in thought, action, or person not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely ave been great strangers, hitherto ; nor, to confess...nose be anxious for a closer intimacy, till the fumes become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...exists in thought, action, or person not our own. A man, to he greatly good, must imagine intensely pos sibly some of those accidents or connexions that...constitution, or reputation, or both, are thereby become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the eflx'et...
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The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ...

Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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....
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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 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...and pleasures of his species must become his own. ,tXThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by...
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A handbook of English dictation

English dictation - 1881 - 156 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." XLIX. The resident graduates...
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Essays and Phantasies

James Thomson - 1881 - 358 pages
...elegant mathematical demonstration, Shelley writes : " 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." I do not intend to discuss here the question in chief with which Shelley is concerned in the passage...
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