Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid PoliticsUniversity of Missouri Press, 1999 - 278 pages |
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| 13 | |
Contagion and Personification in Queen | 58 |
Reforming the Reviewers | 109 |
The Elegiac Reception of Adonais | 151 |
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Page 12 - 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; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.