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,... The Gentleman's Magazine - Seite 3521834Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1886 - 668 Seiten
...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... | |
| Shelley Society - 1886 - 184 Seiten
...feel how much I must regret him. He was the most gentle, the most amiable and least worldly-minded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested...other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine, high-minded,... | |
| William Sharp - 1887 - 252 Seiten
...; 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 Seiten
...friends. Byron said of Shelley, " He was the most gentle, the most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met : full of delicacy, disinterested...other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine, high-minded,... | |
| 1892 - 960 Seiten
...listener Byron described Shelley as — "The most gentle, the most amiable and least worldly-minded person I ever met ; full 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... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1893 - 486 Seiten
..." to feel how much I must regret him. He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldlyminded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested...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... | |
| Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - 360 Seiten
...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....and noble, and 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... | |
| 1894 - 706 Seiten
...purest nature he had ever known. " He was the most gentle, the most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met; full of delicacy, disinterested...other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine, high-minded,... | |
| Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - 360 Seiten
...listener Byron described Shelley as— " The most gentle, the most amiable and least 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... | |
| 1895 - 482 Seiten
...made after the latter's death. " He was the most gentle, the most amiable, the least worldly-minded person I ever met ; full of delicacy, disinterested...other men, and possessing a degree of genius joined to simplicity as rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau ideal of all that is fine, highminded... | |
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