 A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the 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; and...  The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 101by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1845 - 246 pages
...must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry adrautisters to the effect by acting upon the cause. Poetry enlarges...and which form new intervals and interstices whose ?oid for ever craves fresh food. Poetry strengthens the faculty which is the organ of the moral nature... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...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...poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.Poetry enlarges the circumference of the inmgiimtion by replenishing it with thoughts of ever... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...: the pains 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 the cause." — Essays and Letters, vol i., p. 16. I would not willingly say anything after perorations like these... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 656 pages
...others: the pains 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 the cause.'— Essays and Letters, vol. ip 16. " I would not willingly say anything after perorations like these;... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...: the pains 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 the cause." — Essays and Letters, vol. ip 16. I would not willingly say anything after perorations like these... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 612 pages
...abstraction,— the other the application ; the one the scten«, the other the art. must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination...administers to the effect, by acting upon the cause." Deep and scarce recognised is the truth which these words unfold ; and warm is the hopefulness they... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 614 pages
...abstraction, — the other the application; the one the science, the oilier the art. must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination...administers to the effect, by acting upon the cause." Deep and scarce recognised is the truth which these words unfold ; and warm is the hopefulness they... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...place of another and of many others ; the paina and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination...of attracting and assimilating to their own nature .ill other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices, whose void for ever craves fresh... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 488 pages
...his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is tho imagination ; and pootry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause....their own nature all other thoughts, and which form now intervals and interstices, whose void for ever craves fresh food. Poetry strengthens the faculty... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...others. The pains 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 the cause." This critical maxim is so beautifully expressed, it contains the whole germ of what can be said or... | |
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