 ... this is the invisible and unattainable point to which Love tends; and to attain which, it urges forth the powers of man to arrest the faintest shadow of that, without the possession of which there is no rest nor respite to the heart over which it...  Notes and Queries - Page 851883Full view - About this book
 | Berthold Schoene-Harwood - Frankenstein (Fictitious character). - 2000 - 216 pages
...The Re\>olt of ¡slam [1818], and in an early essay 'On Love' he explains that 'in solitude, or in that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings, and yet they sympathise not with us, we love the flowers, the grass, and the waters, and the sky. ... So soon as... | |
 | Samuel Lyndon Gladden - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 376 pages
...Modern Prometheus (1818). In "On Love," Shelley opposes sympathy to solirude, which he describes as "that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us" (SPP 474). 2. Shelley explores this phenomenon most clearly in Alastor: upon his realization that he... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...between those of shared values, or at least kindred sympathies. It is only when "in solitude, or in that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathise not with us" that it is fitting to "love the flowers, the grass and the waters and the sky"... | |
 | John Allison - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 180 pages
...times to that state described by Percy Bysshe Shelley in his essay "On Love": Hence in solitude, or in that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings, and yet they sympathise not with us, we love the flowers, the grass, and the waters, and the sky. In the motion... | |
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