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" 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 66
1848
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Poetical Works, Volumes 1-2

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 854 pages
...magnificent fiction with a religions 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 trnest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 834 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 upou the mountainous...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Promethens is, as it were, the type of tho 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...
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The Prometheus vinctus of Aeschylus, with short notes by N. Pinder

Aeschylus - 1874 - 122 pages
...revengefulness of the fallen Archangel. Indeed it is scarcely too much to say of Prometheus that he ' is the type of the highest perfection of moral and...purest and truest motives to the best and noblest ends' — (Shelley.) In him nearly the whole moral interest of the play lies. Of the remaining characters,...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 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 an«, noblest ends. This l*oem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...
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Shelley: A Critical Biography

George Barnett Smith - 1877 - 296 pages
...Satan of Milton and the generally-conceived character of the Prince of Darkness. He is considered 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. In addition to the heroic attributes usually ascribed...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose: Now First Together ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 458 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...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 660 pages
...magnificent fiction with a religious feeling it engenders something worse. Bat 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...
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Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: Biographic Aesthetic Studies

George Henry Calvert - 1880 - 316 pages
...to the moral grandeur of the Titan rebel, deepens the aesthetic resources. Shelley makes Prometheus "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest motives to the best and noblest ends." From the end of the preface I copy the following important passage...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 474 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...
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