 The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively;...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 317edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the condition of another, and many others : the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own : the great instrument of moral good is the imagination." Now, whether we entirely agree with the author... | |
 | 1840 - 582 pages
...person not our own. Aman, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another, and of many others...and pleasures of his species must become his own." * But Dante has, in his all-too-terrible words, branded this selfishness as the deed of those who,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...in its vivid * " A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others...and pleasures of his species must become his own." — JL Defence of Poetry. reality of representation, is the essay on " Life !" Shelley was a disciple... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...poem entitled * " A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others...pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."—A Defence of Poeiry, " Heaven:" and when he makes one of the interlocutors exclaim, " Peace... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...Shelley says, that a man, " to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another, and of many others...and pleasures of his species must become his own." Now, the pains and pleasures of the species Wordsworth desires to make his own ; but in making them... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another, and of many others:...and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...person, not our own. ,A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another, and of many others:...and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 656 pages
...person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another, and of many others:...and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another, and of many others:...and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others...and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting... | |
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