...faith. If we read it with understanding we see the injustice of Matthew Arnold's saying that Shelley was a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. He would have been that if he had merely wept over lost delusions, and turned away from a distasteful...

...and inbred sense of refinement are salutary and refreshing. To say of Shelley as a poet that he is " a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," is impressive, and I suppose it means something. But it does not account for the "Skylark," or "When...

...more conspicuous by his unpractical theories of conduct and of society. Matthew Arnold called him " a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." But beauty such as Shelley's verse embodies cannot be ineffectual; and his passionate plea for freedom,...

...radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry no less than in life, he is a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." I i IN h o TKHadswortb Xongfellow 1807-1882 This is the much-loved poet of the American home, the man...

...an essay rightly termed by Saintsbury " the most crotchety of all his essays," has called Shelley " a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." In the early part of the century Southey considered himself a benefactor of society in denouncing him....

...radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.' VIII COUNT LEO TOLSTOI1 IN reviewing at the time of its first publication, thirty years ago, Flaubert's...

...might be destined. Doubtless she felt, without defining it, what a later critic has said, that he was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." toward his kind, he had no love to give to institutions; whether it was "fagging" at Eton, or the black...

...rides in "thin ether," "lost in a storm of light," no one who knows Arnold's essay but will recall "the beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." "Lyric Love," his anthology of English love poetry, makes it evident that Mr. Watson is not trustworthy...

...radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is ' a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain,' VIII COUNT LEO TOLSTOI1 IN reviewing at the time of its first publication, thirty years ago, Flaubert's...

...and personal source in the association of this peaceful homestead with the earliest years of that " beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." However derived, the charm is such that the dweller takes leave of Field PART OF THE FLOWER GARDEN....