 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...psychological analysis, brutal as it may seem. Shelley, whom Matthew Arnold felicitously described as " a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," is regarded by Mr. Salt as a Pioneer of Humanitarianism. 2 The chief merit in the latter's little pamphlet... | |
 | American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
...vainly in his speech, and touching nothing" (one thinks of Arnold's characterization of Shelley as "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," which, in its turn, may call to mind Lowell's comparison of Shelley's genius to a St. Elmo's fire,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1895 - 588 pages
...field of pure abstractions. Shelley too was in the void (the figure is borrowed from Joubert's), ' a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.' Or again, Marcus Aurelius, had he known the Christian writings, would have ' found in the Gospel of... | |
 | 1889 - 234 pages
...convictions, and presses them homo to good purpose. Equally true is the ring of his verdict on Shelly as a " beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. The final essays on names that are the latest vogue of culture, Tolstoi and Amiel, are admirahle, and... | |
 | Education - 1896 - 712 pages
...than his exquisitely chiseled metaphor summarizing Shelley's poetic aspirations — "a beautiful but ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain " ; but the significance of the metaphor is not so much in the picture or the melody of language or the imaginative... | |
 | English periodicals - 1881 - 534 pages
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 pages
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1881 - 326 pages
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...contemporaries ; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to... | |
 | Art - 1881 - 692 pages
...their contemporaries ; either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to... | |
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Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. 
