| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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