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
| Leonard Moss - 2000 - 242 pages
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| John P. Anderson - 2000 - 620 pages
...wish no living thing to suffer pain." As a model for the image of Bloom, Prometheus is described as "the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends." In his own Preface9 dealing with influences for the... | |
| Nicholas F. Gier - 2000 - 332 pages
...own mind.6 In his preface to Prometheus Unbound Percy Bysshe Shelly claimed that "Prometheus is ... the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives of the best and noblest ends."16 Mary Shelly described her husband as a spiritual... | |
| Paul Hamilton - 2000 - 120 pages
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| Howard B. White - 1968 - 286 pages
...There was no need, in his mind, to "weight his faults with his wrongs," as in the case of Satan, for Prometheus is "the type of the highest perfection...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends.3 Shelley loved Bacon, and Shelley saw in the Promethean tragedy the human tragedy. And Shelley... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - 2003 - 548 pages
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| Jonathan David Gross - 2001 - 252 pages
...authority of power."23 In his introduction to Prometheus Unbound, Shelley explained that his hero was "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the true motives to the best and noblest ends."24 Byron praised Prometheus directly: "Thy godlike crime... | |
| Samuel Lyndon Gladden - 2002 - 376 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...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends. (133) In describing Prometheus in the image of Milton's Satan, Shelley constructs his hero in the tradition... | |
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