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" And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. "
The Greater Victorian Poets - Page 19
by Hugh Walker - 1895 - 332 lehte
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The Westminster Review, 157. köide

1902 - 742 lehte
...psychological analysis, brutal as it may seem. Shelley, whom Matthew Arnold felicitously described as " a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," is regarded by Mr. Salt as a Pioneer of Humanitarianism. 2 The chief merit in the latter's little pamphlet...
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The Atlantic Monthly, 95. köide

1905 - 880 lehte
...about vainly in his speech, and touching nothing" (one thinks of Arnold's characterization of Shelley as "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," which, in its turn, may call to mind Lowell's comparison of Shelley's genius to a St. Elmo's fire,...
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The Church Quarterly Review, 39. köide

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1895 - 588 lehte
...field of pure abstractions. Shelley too was in the void (the figure is borrowed from Joubert's), ' a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.' Or again, Marcus Aurelius, had he known the Christian writings, would have ' found in the Gospel of...
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Time, 19. köide

1889 - 234 lehte
...convictions, and presses them homo to good purpose. Equally true is the ring of his verdict on Shelly as a " beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. The final essays on names that are the latest vogue of culture, Tolstoi and Amiel, are admirahle, and...
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Appletons' Journal, 10. köide

1881 - 692 lehte
...their contemporaries ; either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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Poetry of Byron, chosen by M. Arnold

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 lehte
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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Macmillan's Magazine, 43. köide

1881 - 534 lehte
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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Poetry of Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 326 lehte
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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Poetry of Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 lehte
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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The Quarterly Review, 154. köide

1882 - 598 lehte
...their contemporaries ; either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...
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