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" 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... "
Slavery and the Romantic Imagination - Page 32
by Debbie Lee - 2017 - 312 pages
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...writer, " is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with others. A man to be greatly 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...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments,

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...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...place of another and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination;...
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A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...going out of our own nature, and an1 identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to...comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of -7 t » ' jenderinf Tt tlic receptacle nf nt lousanfl unapprereproduces all that it represents, and^rTe'Tm'p'SRona1QU...
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The Monthly chronicle; a national journal, Volume 5

1840 - 582 pages
...identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person not our own. Aman, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively;...place of another, and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own." * But Dante has, in his all-too-terrible words, branded...
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The North American Review, Volume 59

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...•whose minds saw things in the same light in which they were viewed by himself. Shelley says, that a man, " to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...place of another, and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own." Now, the pains and pleasures of the species Wordsworth...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...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...place of another, and of many others: the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...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...place of another and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination...
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Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets, with critical ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...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...place of another, and of many others: the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination; and...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...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...place of another, and of many others: the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...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...place of another, and of many others : the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination ; and...
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