 | Elizabeth Amelia Sharp - 1910 - 474 Seiten
...is a longing that shall be insatiable even in death." With Shelley he might have said of himself : " I think one is always in love with something or other;...image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." From the many letters the biographer received after the publication of his book I select three : BRASENOSE... | |
 | Elizabeth Amelia Sharp - 1910 - 480 Seiten
...something or other; the error — and I confess it is not easy for spirits THE SPORT OF CHANCE 133 cased in flesh and blood to avoid it — consists...image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." From the many letters the biographer received after the publication of his book I select three: BRASENOSE... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 Seiten
...Demon, Ghost, and Heaven, other : the error, and I confess It is not easy for spirits cased in flesh anJ sternly on one arm, he said : — " Man, who art thou who dost deny my words ? Truth sits upon the l But this Shelley discovered only with " the years that bring the philosophic mind," and when he was... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1910 - 280 Seiten
...and whom he calls Emily. Sometimes a phrase of personal passion slips in, because of his ' error of seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is perhaps eternal,' but from the moment he cries, The day is come, and thou wilt fly with me, he speaks only of the vision... | |
 | Francis Henry Gribble - 1911 - 414 Seiten
...curious, however, to hear what I am and have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealised history of my life and feelings. I think one is always...image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." That is all ; and perhaps the letter tells us more even of Shelley's life and feelings than the poem,... | |
 | Andreas Bard - 1911 - 246 Seiten
...and found its spirit everywhere in nature? It was this so-called atheist who said: "The error of love consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is perhaps eternal;" it is he who confessed: "In our present gross material state our faculties are clouded; when death... | |
 | Edward William Edmunds - 1911 - 166 Seiten
...himself when he wrote to Hunt : " I think one is always in love with something or other ; the error . . . consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." This seems to be the final criticism of Shelley's life. It was deluded by generous errors, but it was... | |
 | Helen Rossetti Angeli - 1911 - 420 Seiten
...the error—and I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it—consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." Yet let us be grateful to the beauty and grace of Emilia Viviani, for, however the mortal image may... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - 1912 - 336 Seiten
...' The Epipsychidion I cannot look at ; the person whom it celebrates was a cloud instead of a Juno. If you are curious, however, to hear what I am and...image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal.' This paragraph contains the essence of a just criticism." (English Men of Letters, pp. 138-41.) For... | |
 | 1912 - 890 Seiten
...honeymoon. Shelley, on the other hand, though he knew rapture, knew disenchantment also. He was always "seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is perhaps eternal," but always failing to find it there. The social boycott oppressed him indirectly by its oppression... | |
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It is an idealized history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other ; the error, and I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it, consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of... 
