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" 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... "
Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ... - Page 47
by Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 255 pages
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Know Your Mind: The Psychological Dimension of Ethics in Buddhism

Sangharakshita (Bhikshu) - 1998 - 312 pages
...Life of the Buddha, op. cit., p.225. 164 Mind in Buddhist Psychology, pp.63~4. 165 ibid., p.65. 166 'The great secret of morals is love; or a going out...and pleasures of his species must become his own.' RB. Shelley, 'A Defence of Poetry' (Selected Prose Works of Shelley, Watts and Co., London 1915, p.87)....
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Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, Subjectivity

Larry H. Peer, Diane Long Hoeveler - 1998 - 262 pages
...sympathy, and morals are unmistakable some eighty years later in Percy Shelley's Defence of Poetry: The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out...pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.17 Notice that Shelley appeals to the whole emotional range of human response: not just joy is...
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Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s

David Bromwich - 2000 - 204 pages
...who was an acute interpreter of everything radical in Wordsworth, observed in the Defence of Poetry: "the great secret of morals is Love; or a going out...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own." Mortimer's revenge against Herbert begins with an identification of this sort, and it is not clear...
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Textanlässe, Lesetätigkeiten: Poetik und Rhetorik der Unabgeschlossenheit

Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 pages
...art,« als Wort und Sinn noch dicht beieinander lagen. Diese Sehnsucht definiert Shelley als Liebe, »a going out of our own nature, and an identification...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own« (282-283). Ein vierter Faktor kommt in der Wirkung der Poesie zur Geltung. Die Freude des Dichters...
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England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic ...

James Chandler - 1999 - 616 pages
...theorists of the imagination in the early nineteenthcentury. Shelley wrote in A Defence of Poetry that "a man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...comprehensively; he must put himself in the place 43. Smith even otfers a historical explanation of the rise of Jesuit casuistry in the early modern...
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The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture

Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 pages
...social ideal in Art as Experience by quoting Shelley on love, or "a going out of our nature and the identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own."19 But if Dewey 's image of the democratic embrace of the actual and the ideal attested to the...
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Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid Politics

Kim Wheatley - 1999 - 292 pages
...the ground of his ethics in the context of a discussion of poetry's beneficial effect on humanity: "The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out...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...
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Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and Sorority

Teddi Lynn Chichester, Teddi Chichester Bonca - 1999 - 336 pages
...world, from others, provides a nice contrast with Shelley's own definition of Love in the Defence as "a going out of our own nature, and an identification...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...
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Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist

Bruce Bashford - 1999 - 212 pages
...realizing the experience of those greater than ourselves suggest that Wilde too seeks, in Shelley's words, "an identification of ourselves with the beautiful...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...
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The Call of the Forest and Other Poems

Sangharakshita - 2000 - 66 pages
...famous passage on the imagination in both an exposition of Buddhist ethics and an essay on poetry: The great secret of morals is love; or a going out...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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