 The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 326edited by - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Loring Holmes Dodd - English language - 1915 - 96 pages
...years of Christianity? Ruskin: Crown of Wild Olive, "The Future of England" Adverb succeeding verb A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and...and pleasures of his species must become his own. Shelley: A Defense of Poetry Remember that every day of your early life is ordaining irrevocably, for... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1916 - 368 pages
...secret of morals is Love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. . . Poetry enlarges the circumference of the Imagination .... [and] strengthens the... | |
 | Roger Ingpen - Poets, English - 1917 - 902 pages
...great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or...become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause. Poetry enlarges the... | |
 | National Conference of Social Work (U.S.). Session - Charities - 1920 - 544 pages
...co-ordination cannot be attained. That requisite is vision — imagination. The poet Shelley said: A man to be greatly good must imagine intensely and...and pleasures of his species must become his own. A great instrument of moral good is the imagination. DIVISION IX— ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL FORCES THE... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1918 - 414 pages
...love ; or a going out of »IV:4, 5. « XVIII :301. our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own." To assert this, as Professor Shawcross points out, is a very different thing from asserting that the... | |
 | William B. Cairns - American literature - 1918 - 526 pages
...great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own." To assert this, as Professor Shawcross points out, is a very different thing from asserting that the... | |
 | Kim Wheatley - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages
...secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own" (487). To love is to love "the beautiful," but although Shelley relativizes "conceptions of right and... | |
 | Bruce Bashford - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 212 pages
...than ourselves suggest that Wilde too seeks, in Shelley's words, "an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own" (563). In both the short story and the dialogues, Wilde attempts to locate an experiential basis for... | |
 | Teddi Lynn Chichester, Teddi Chichester Bonca - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 336 pages
...definition of Love in the Defence as "a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own" (487). For both Freud and Shelley, the coiling back into the self that characterizes (secondary) narcissism... | |
 | Sangharakshita - Buddhist poetry - 2000 - 66 pages
...secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or...and pleasures of his species must become his own. We must also bring sympathy to the way we read poetry. I would recommend that when you read these poems... | |
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