You should have known Shelley', said Byron, 'to feel how much I must regret him. He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius,... Shelley and His Writings - 281. oldalszerző: Charles S. Middleton - 1858Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| William Michael Rossetti - 1886 - 218 oldal
...; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He had formed...nothing like him, and never shall again, I am certain." Another statement made by Byron, very characteristic of himself, and placing Shelley in a light somewhat... | |
| Shelley Society - 1886 - 184 oldal
...; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He had formed...nothing like him, and never shall again, I am certain." Another statement made by Byron, very characteristic of himself, and placing Shelley in a light somewhat... | |
| 1886 - 668 oldal
...be just. He personally inquired into the circumstances of his pensioners. ' He had,' wrote Byron, ' formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine,...high-minded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal to ' the very letter.' Shelley's great religious teacher was Plato : to the Greek philosopher he owed... | |
| William Sharp - 1887 - 252 oldal
...; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a bean ideal of all that is fine, high-minded and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 oldal
...: full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He had formed...he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter. . . . The best and least selfish man I ever knew." In Shelley's poem, " Julian and Maddalo," the latter... | |
| 1892 - 960 oldal
...of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a genius, joined to a simplicity, ae rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine, high minded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter." And this was the man... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1893 - 486 oldal
...degree of genius, joined to a simplicity, as rare as is it admirable. He had formed to himself a beau of all that is fine, high-minded, and noble, and he...a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly-wisdom. I have seen nothing like him, and never shall again, I am certain. I never can forget... | |
| Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - 360 oldal
...worldlyminded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a genius, joined to a simplicity, as rare as it is admirable....he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter." And this was the man on whose memory Byron allowed the most horrible imputations to rest — while... | |
| 1894 - 706 oldal
...met; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He had formed...he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter." Toward the end of June the two poets made the tour of Lake Geneva in their boat, and were very nearly... | |
| Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - 360 oldal
...worldlyminded person I ever met; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a genius, joined to a simplicity, as rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau idM of all that is fine, high-minded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter."... | |
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