 | 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... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 430 pages
...resting-places like the poetry of Burns or Wordsworth. Well, indeed, is Shelley described by Mr. Arnold as a " beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." As a poet, Shelley is superior to Keats in scope of imagination and in mastery of verse, but it should... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...resting-places like the poetry of Burns or Wordsworth. Well, indeed, is Shelley described by Mr. Arnold as a " beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." As a poet, Shelley is superior to Keats in scope of imagination and in mastery of verse, but it should... | |
 | Choice literature - 1888 - 632 pages
...radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is " a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." — MATTHEW ARNOLD, in The Nineteenth Century. MOVES ON THE EUROPEAN CHESS-BOARD* WRITING in March,... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 1004 pages
...radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. From Temple Наг. SOUVENIRS OF AN EGOIST. EHEU FUGACES I How that air carries me back, that air ground... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...'252 ESSAYS IN CRITICISM vn nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is ' a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.' VIII COUNT LEO TOLSTOI1 IN reviewing at the time of its first publication, thirty years ago, Flaubert's... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Criticism - 1888 - 546 pages
...fact, but Shelley's feelings attached themselves to the more important side of truth in this matter. " Beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." No, not in the void, but amid the prime forces of the modern world ; and this ineffectual angel was... | |
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And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. 
