| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...magnificent (iction with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...magnificent fiction with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the trueet motive« to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous... | |
| American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...restoration of Saturnian times is anticipated. On this view is Shelley's drama founded " Prometheusis the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...very highest power. The opening is in the spirit of JEschylus, and we think equal. In JEschylus the gifts which Prometheus is supposed to have given to... | |
| 1848 - 626 pages
...Prometheus of 1819, he gives the legend another colour. Evil is an usurpation and an accident, and is finally to pass away through the effects of diffused...in the spirit of ^Eschylus, and we think equal. In .Eschylus the gifts which Prometheus is supposed to have given to man, are somewhat inartificially... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...Prometheus of 1819, he gives the legend another color. Evil is an usurpation and an accident, and is finally to pass away through the effects of diffused...very highest power. The opening is in the spirit of ЛЗ«сhylu«, and we think equal. In iEschylus the gifts which Prometheus is supposed to have given... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...magnificent fiction with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by tile purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon... | |
| David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...Unbound," a lyrical drama in four acts, was intended, as we are told by Shelley himself, to make his hero "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends." It hence differs from the lost drama of ^Eschylus... | |
| Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 380 pages
...Prometheus, and has given to him a higher and more exalted sphere of action. In his hands he becomes the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. He is exempt from every taint of ambition, envy, or... | |
| Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 404 pages
...Prometheus, and has given to him a higher and more exalted sphere of action. In his hands he becomes the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. He is exempt from every taint of ambition, envy, or... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 874 pages
...mystic and shadowy imagery, which renders it remote from real life. The hero was intended to be a " type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends." Though revealing his mastery of tho simple spirit... | |
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