 | 1883 - 666 pages
...have done it unto Me." FAITH. IT has been maintained by both ancient and modern philosophers, that the great secret of morals is love ; or a going out...the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever-new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...help to new conquests. — Daniel Webster. In order to be greatly good, one 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. — Percy B. Shelley. The... | |
 | Ellis Charles Mackie - 1885 - 228 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. SHELLEY, Essays and Letters,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 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, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 pages
...action, or person,, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and rnmprehensjyelyj he must put himself in the place of another and of...others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must 10 become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 pages
...censure, and deceive, and subjugate one another. But poetry acts in another and diviner manner. . . . The great instrument of moral good is the imagination;...administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." And see also Emerson, Essay on Books: "The imagination infuses a certain volatility and intoxication.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 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...others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must 10 become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 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...another, and of many others : the pains and pleasures of hib species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 132 pages
...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, mi^t imag. ine_intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others ; thejMJns^ncLplgasures of his specjesjriust 10 become his own. The great instrument of moraL good... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1893 - 120 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...pains and pleasures of his species must become his 15 own. The great instrument of moral good is the1 imagination; and poetry administers to the effect... | |
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The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, 
