The tragedies of the Athenian poets are as mirrors in which the spectator beholds himself, under a thin disguise of circumstance, stript of all but that ideal perfection and energy which every one feels to be the internal type of all that he loves, admires,... The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 106by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880Full view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...intellectual greatness of the ageT he tr";;oryy of the Athenian poets are as mirrors in whir-h tiysppctator beholds himself, under a thin disguise of circumstance,...admires, and would become. The imagination is enlarged by Hi sympathy with pains and passions" SO fUtgtlty , that they distend in their conception the capacity... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...of the Athenian poets are as mirrors in which the spectator beholds himself, under a thin disguiee of circumstance, stript of all but that ideal perfection and energy which every one feels to bo the internal typo of all that ho loves, admires, and would become. The imagination is enlarged by... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...as mirrors in which the spectator beholds himself, under a thin disguis^_^..circwBÄtauceJ süript of all but that ideal perfection and energy which every one feels to be the internal ijpe olZaJl that he loves, admires, and would become. The ima- j gination is enlarged by a sympathy... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...intellectual greatncsB of the age. The tragedies of the Athenian pot-o are as mirrors in which the spectator beholds himself, under a thin disguise of circumstance,...become. The imagination is enlarged by a sympathy with p&ins and passions so mighty, that they distend in their conception the capacity of that by which they... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...Athenian poets are as mirrors in which the spectator 1 In the transcript, whether the quick yrowth &c. beholds himself, under a thin disguise of circumstance,...loves, admires, and would become. The imagination is enJ larged by a sympathy with pains and passions so mighty, that they distend in their conception the... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1886 - 616 pages
...Athens.* " The tragedies of the Athenian poets," he writes, " are as mirrors in which the spectator beholds himself, under a thin disguise of circumstance,...of all that he loves, admires, and would become." Except Henry Reveley's steam-engine, and the sight of the sea, there was little in Leghorn outside... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Digital images - 1891 - 124 pages
...mirrors jm _w_hjch_the spectator beholds himself, Sunder a thin disguise of circumstance, stripped of all !but that ideal perfection and energy which...type of all that he loves, admires, and would become. |_The imagina-\ tion is enlarged by a sympathy with pains and passions so mighty, that they distend... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Digital images - 1891 - 124 pages
...as mirrors in which the spectator beholds himself, under a thin disguise of circumstance, stripped of all but that ideal perfection and energy which...every one feels to be the internal type of all that he a° loves, admires, and would become. The jmagination is enlarged by a sympathy with pains and passions... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Literary Criticism - 1896 - 366 pages
...intellectual greatness of the age. The tragedies of the Athenian poets are as mirrors in which the spectator beholds himself, under a thin disguise of circumstance,...and energy which every one feels to be the internal ty§p of all that he loves, admires, and would become. The imagination is enlarged by a sympathy with... | |
| Charles Alexander McMurry - American literature - 1903 - 278 pages
...expanding to the conception of larger things. Speaking of the ancient drama at Athens, Shelley says, "The imagination is enlarged by a sympathy with pains...the capacity of that by which they are conceived." Those who have received into the inner self the expansive energy of noble thought and social culture,... | |
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