...existence in the visionary chain of intellectual beauty, both were indeed equally vain and enthusiastic. " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite— To forgive...the thing it contemplates, Neither to change, nor flatter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free...

...must needs return to man, declaring in a few lines of high intention the sum of the whole matter:— " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the tlling it contemplates; Neither to change nor falter nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to...

...wished to inculcate that the highest virtues of the creature are purely passive : — " To sufl'er woes which Hope thinks infinite, To forgive wrongs...the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change, nor flatter, nor repent, — This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and...

...attempts, to still move forward toward our lofty ideal, though that effort means, as it does mean : " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than the death of night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love and bear; to hope till hope creates,...

...subjected to wrongs "darker than death or night." We know that to others it had been given as to you " To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates." We know that the way to personal liberty has been at the cost of so much blood and treasure. To that...

...beloved one, and of Lucia, the young, devoted dreamer, mingled into one. CHAPTER IX. To suffer woes that Hope thinks infinite, To forgive wrongs darker than death or night, To love and bear, to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates,— This is thy...

...her with his length ; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to .hope till Hope creates From its own wreck...

...whom she gives a home, and whose radical pessimism both defeats and energizes her more Shelleyan will to "hope, till Hope creates/ From its own wreck the thing it contemplates" (PU:IV.573-4). Shelley's bold insertion of two fictitious women into a historical narrative makes Valperga...

...during these coming years as though freedom would win at Armageddon and so — you remember Shelly: hope till hope creates / From its own wreck the thing it contemplates." If not, if only despair and defeat were felt and expressed, then victory would be served to the forces...

...Sibylline Lmves, p. 54. See Paley, Coleridge's Later Poetty (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. 59- 60. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Only by such means could the millennium be re-attained, for in Shelley's view violence would change...