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 32by Debbie Lee - 2017 - 312 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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