Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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Page viii
... remain , in their " love , beauty , and delight , " in a world congenial to them - we , clogged by error , ignorance , and strife , " see them not , till we are fitted by purification and improvement for their higher state . * For ...
... remain , in their " love , beauty , and delight , " in a world congenial to them - we , clogged by error , ignorance , and strife , " see them not , till we are fitted by purification and improvement for their higher state . * For ...
Page ix
... remain , to be published when his works assume a complete shape . I do not know why Shelley selected the " Ion " of Plato to translate . Probably because he thought it characteristic ; that it unfolded peculiar ideas , and those ...
... remain , to be published when his works assume a complete shape . I do not know why Shelley selected the " Ion " of Plato to translate . Probably because he thought it characteristic ; that it unfolded peculiar ideas , and those ...
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... remain . We have thus circumscribed the word poetry within the limits of that art which is the most familiar and the most perfect expression of the faculty itself . It is necessary , however , to make the circle still narrower , and to ...
... remain . We have thus circumscribed the word poetry within the limits of that art which is the most familiar and the most perfect expression of the faculty itself . It is necessary , however , to make the circle still narrower , and to ...
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... remain only , as on the wrinkled sand which paves it . These and corre- sponding conditions of being are experienced prin- cipally by those of the most delicate sensibility and the most enlarged imagination ; and the state of mind ...
... remain only , as on the wrinkled sand which paves it . These and corre- sponding conditions of being are experienced prin- cipally by those of the most delicate sensibility and the most enlarged imagination ; and the state of mind ...
Page 29
... remain unsaid . Let us next consider the virtue and power of Love . " What is most admirable in Love is , that he neither inflicts nor endures injury in his relations either with Gods or men . Nor if he suffers any thing does he suffer ...
... remain unsaid . Let us next consider the virtue and power of Love . " What is most admirable in Love is , that he neither inflicts nor endures injury in his relations either with Gods or men . Nor if he suffers any thing does he suffer ...
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