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
| New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...writer, " is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with others. A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the condition of another, and many others : the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...infinity in the immaterial one. Such ideas are, in some degree, developed in his poem entitled * " A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."—A Defence of Poeiry, " Heaven:" and when he makes one of the interlocutors exclaim, " Peace... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...secret, of morals, js love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an1 identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or...comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of -7 t » ' jenderinf Tt tlic receptacle nf nt lousanfl unapprereproduces all that it represents, and^rTe'Tm'p'SRona1QU... | |
| 1840 - 582 pages
...great exemplar, " 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. Aman, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pages
...•whose minds saw things in the same light in which they were viewed by himself. Shelley says, that a man, " to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...and pleasures of his species must become his own." Now, the pains and pleasures of the species Wordsworth desires to make his own ; but in making them... | |
| 1965 - 594 pages
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| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 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...administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." — Essays and Letters, vol. i. p. 16. I would not willingly say anything after perorations like these... | |
| 1845 - 656 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...administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.'— Essays and Letters, vol. ip 16. " I would not willingly say anything after perorations like these;... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 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...poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause."—Essays and Letters, vol i., p. 16. it is on that power of undervaluing nobody, and no attainments... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 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...poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause."—Essays and Letters, vol. i. p. 16. I would not willingly say anything after perorations like... | |
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