| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 Seiten
...magnificent (iction with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 396 Seiten
...magnificent fiction with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the trueet motive« to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 Seiten
...restoration of Saturnian times is anticipated. On this view is Shelley's drama founded " Prometheus is the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...very highest power. The opening is in the spirit of ./Eschylus, and we think equal. In JEschylus the gifts •which Prometheus is supposed to have given... | |
| 1848 - 636 Seiten
...restoration of Saturnian times is anticipated. On this view is Shelley's drama founded. " Prometheus is the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...very highest power. The opening is in the spirit of ЛЗ«сhylu«, and we think equal. In iEschylus the gifts which Prometheus is supposed to have given... | |
| 1848 - 626 Seiten
...restoration of Saturnian times is anticipated. On this view is Shelley's drama founded. " Prometheus is the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual...very highest power. The opening is in the spirit of ^Eschylus, and we think equal. In .Eschylus the gifts which Prometheus is supposed to have given to... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 Seiten
...magnificent fiction with a religious feeling, it engenders something worse. But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by tile purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon... | |
| David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 Seiten
...Unbound," a lyrical drama in four acts, was intended, as we are told by Shelley himself, to make his hero "the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends." It hence differs from the lost drama of ^Eschylus... | |
| Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 380 Seiten
...Prometheus, and has given to him a higher and more exalted sphere of action. In his hands he becomes the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. He is exempt from every taint of ambition, envy, or... | |
| Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 404 Seiten
...Prometheus, and has given to him a higher and more exalted sphere of action. In his hands he becomes the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. He is exempt from every taint of ambition, envy, or... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 874 Seiten
...mystic and shadowy imagery, which renders it remote from real life. The hero was intended to be a " type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends." Though revealing his mastery of tho simple spirit... | |
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