 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 what is, perhaps, eternal.  The Church Quarterly Review - Page 68edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | Helen Rossetti Angeli - 1911 - 416 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealised history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other...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... | |
 | Francis Henry Gribble - 1911 - 414 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealised history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other;...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,... | |
 | 1911 - 174 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealised history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other...mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal. " Hunt is not yet arrived, but I expect him every day. I shall see little of Lord Byron, nor shall... | |
 | Andreas Bard - 1911 - 246 pages
...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 pages
...Shelley, not long before his death, had arrived at the true criticism of 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... | |
 | Helen Rossetti Angeli - 1911 - 420 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealised 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... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - 1912 - 336 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1913 - 192 pages
...have been, it will tell you something thereof. It is an idealized history of my life and feelings. I think one is always in love with something or other...image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal." No poet has a more distinct philosophy of life than Browning. Indeed he has as much a right to a place... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1913 - 506 pages
...delusion as complete as that which he had experienced in the case of Miss Hitchener. He continues : or other ; the error — and I confess it is not easy...in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal.1 About the same time Shelley wrote, in prose, as an answer to Peacock's Four Ages of Poetry... | |
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