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" Incest is, like many other incorrect things, a very poetical circumstance. It may be the excess of love or hate. It may be the defiance of everything for the sake of another, which clothes itself in the glory of the highest heroism, or it may be that... "
Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost ... - Page 170
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...like many other incorrect things, a very rxpctical circumstance. It may be the excess of lu\ i- ur hate. It may be the defiance of everything for the...that cynical rage which, confounding the good and the b:ul in existing opinions, breaks through them for 1 1 ic purpose of rioting in selfishness and antipathy,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 110

Anonymous - 1861 - 604 pages
...say of the most infamous of all crimes that it may be right or wrong according to circumstances. ' It may be the defiance of everything for the sake...clothes itself in the glory of the highest heroism.' He did not see that, whatever the defiance of human opinion may be, the defiance of a moral law can...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 71

Literature - 1861 - 674 pages
...say of the most infamous of all crimes that it may be right or wrong according to circumstances. " It may be the defiance of everything for the sake...clothes itself in the glory of the highest heroism." He did not see that, whatever the defiance of human opinion may be, the defiance of a moral law can...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 110

English literature - 1861 - 600 pages
...to say of the most infamous of 'all crimes that it may be right or wrong according to circumstances. 'It may be the defiance of everything for the sake...clothes itself in the glory of the highest heroism.' He did not see that, whatever the defiance of human opinion may be, the defiance of a moral law can...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge paintings - 1874 - 584 pages
...Calderon •ay in the person of the former — Si wingre Bin fliegn hiere, que fora sangre con fuego ? Incest is, like many other incorrect things, a very...sake of another, which clothes itself in the glory of tho highest heroism ; or it may be that cynical rage which, confounding the good and the bad in existing...
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Essays and studies (chiefly repr. from the Fortnightly review).

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 pages
...to Mrs. Gisborne, with reference to Calderon's tragic treatment of the story of Amnon and Tamar, " is, like many other incorrect things, a very poetical...highest heroism ; or it may be that cynical rage which, 1 It may be objected that the creed from which the insurgent population has been delivered by the preaching...
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Essays and Studies

Algernon Charles Swinburne - Art - 1875 - 438 pages
...to Mrs. Gisborne, with reference to Calderon's tragic treatment of the story of Amnon and Tamar, " is, like many other incorrect things, -a very poetical...highest heroism ; or it may be that cynical rage which, 1 It may be objected that the creed from which the insurgent population has been delivered by the preaching...
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Essays and Studies, Issue 72

Algernon Charles Swinburne - Art - 1876 - 408 pages
...to Mrs. Gisborne, with reference to Calderon's tragic treatment of the story of Amnon and Tamar, " is, like many other incorrect things, a very poetical...highest heroism ; or it may be that cynical rage which, 1 It may be objected that the creed from which the insurgent population has been delivered by the preaching...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 660 pages
...Calderon say, in the person of the former — ' Si sangre sin fuego hiere Qua fara sangre con fuego.' Incest is, like many other incorrect things, a very poetical circumstance. It may be the defiance of everything for the sake of another which clothes itself in the glory of the highest heroism,...
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Poetical Works of Lord Byron: The prisoner of Chillon. Poems of July ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 632 pages
...Calderon say, in the person of the former — ' Si sangre sin fuego hiere Qua fara sangre con fuego.' Incest is, like many other incorrect things, a very poetical circumstance. It may be the defiance of everyth1ng for the sake of another which clothes 1tself in the glory of the highest heroism,...
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