 Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.  Littell's Living Age - Page 661848Full view - About this book
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 pages
...Prometheus as the champion of mankind, Zeus (and God) as the tyrannical oppressor. "Prometheus," he wrote, "is the type of the highest perfection of moral and...and truest motives to the best and noblest ends." A radical, Prometheus is ready To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...magnificent fiction with a religious feeling it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous... | |
 | Alan C. Leidner - 1994 - 176 pages
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 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pages
..."imaginary being" of the most "poetical character," described in the preface to Prometheus Unbound as "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends." Prometheus's gift of fire makes human consciousness... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield - 1995 - 360 pages
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 | E M Papper - 1995 - 180 pages
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