 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...in one of his letters. " I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science, and if I were well, certainly I would aspire to the latter,...contending creeds by which mankind have been ruled." A virtuous action, according to his definition, is one designed and fitted to produce to the greatest... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...and little of that . . . I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science, and if I were well certainly I would aspire to the latter;...great work embodying the discoveries of all ages and harmonising the contending creeds by which mankind have been ruled." After all this it comes as a relief... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 pages
...think you would like it. I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science, and if I were well, certainly I would aspire to the latter...great work, embodying the discoveries of all ages, and harmonising the contending creeds by which mankind have been ruled. Far from me is such an attempt,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...think you would like it. I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science, and if I were well, certainly I would aspire to the latter...great work, embodying the discoveries of all ages, and harmonising the contending creeds by which mankind have been ruled. Far from me is' such an attempt,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...think you would like it. I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science, and if I were well, certainly I would aspire to the latter...great work, embodying the discoveries of all ages, and harmonising the contending creeds by which mankind have been ruled. Far from me is such an attempt,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...think you would like it. I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science, and if I were well, certainly I would aspire to the latter...great work, embodying the discoveries of all ages, and harmonising the contending creeds by which mankind have been ruled. Far from me is such an attempt,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Poets, English - 1879 - 216 pages
...he wrote to Peacock, January 26th, 1819, " very subordinate to moral and political science, and if I were well, certainly I would aspire to the latter ; for I can conceive a groat work, embodying the discoveries of all ages, and harmonizing the contending creeds by which mankind... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 316 pages
...think you would like it. I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science, and if I were well, certainly I would aspire to the latter,...contending creeds by which mankind have been ruled." Shelley could not be idle, being in this like all men of full mind. The first need and law of life... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 426 pages
...you would like it. I consider"! poetry very subordinate to moral and political science, ' and if I were well, certainly I would aspire to the latter,...of all ages, and harmonizing the contending creeds by_J which mankind have been ruled. Far from me is such an attempt, and I shall be content, by exercising... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1886 - 616 pages
...had written to • • — . Peacock in the opening of the year, " and, if I were well, Jan. 1820. certainly I would aspire to the latter, for I can...contending creeds by which mankind have been ruled." f Shelley did not dare to attempt such a work as this ; but he designed to produce a treatise occasional,... | |
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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science, and if I were well, certainly I would aspire to the latter ; for I can conceive a great work, embodying the discoveries of all ages, and harmonising the contending creeds by which mankind... 
