 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
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 544 pages
...purpose in Prometheus is to ' present beautiful idealisms of moral excellence ' ; the hero is to be 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. Bat, in the Defence, we see how this type is to be... | |
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 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1922 - 436 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 mountain8 ous... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pages
...language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary. . . . 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." To his sufferings and endurance Prometheus is conceived... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 500 pages
...purpose in Prometheus is to ' present beautiful idealisms of moral excellence ' ; the hero is to be 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. But, in the Defence, we see how this type is to be... | |
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