 | Leigh Hunt - 1893 - 120 pages
...own. A man, to be greatly gnnrl. must imagine intently and comprehensively ; he" most put Himself fn the place of another, and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his 15 own. The great instrument of moral good is the 1 imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 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...species must become his own. The great instrument of rnora good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause. Poetry... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 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...replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which (H211) S have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1896 - 980 pages
...remark that " a man, to be greatly good, must imagine 316 317 greatly and comprehensively; he must pat himself in the place of another, and of many others;...and pleasures of his species must become his own.ยป It is to the poets we must go for our rendering of religion. They are the true theologians, from Dante... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1901 - 72 pages
...oppressions of the earth." And in his prose essay he says : "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"; and he continues, "The great instrument of moral good is imagination, and poetry administers to the... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - 1903 - 272 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...administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." " The drama being that form under which a greater number of modes of expression of poetry are susceptible... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1904 - 274 pages
...human soul; more than one poet has published his Defence of Poetry, and declared with Shelley that ' ' the great instrument of moral good is the imagination,...administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." Even Horace has written his " melius Chrysippo et Crantore "; and no doubt in the last analysis the... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1904 - 272 pages
...human soul; more than one poet has published his Defence of Poetry, and declared with Shelley that "the great instrument of moral good is the imagination,...administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." Even Horace has written his " melius Chrysippo et Crantore "; and no doubt in the last analysis the... | |
 | Hugh Black - 1904 - 296 pages
...said, 'A man to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself into the place of another and of many others ; the pains...and pleasures of his species must become his own.' Most of men's cruelty and callousness is due to lack of imagination, to an incapacity to understand... | |
 | Hugh Black - 1904 - 284 pages
...said, ' A man to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself into the place of another and of many others ; the pains...and pleasures of his species must become his own.' Most of men's cruelty and callousness is due to lack of imagination, to an incapacity to understand... | |
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The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, 
