 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...essay rightly termed by Saintsbury " the most crotchety of all his essays," has called Shelley " a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." In the early part of the century Southey considered himself a benefactor of society in denouncing him.... | |
 | Thomas Roberts Slicer - 1903 - 106 pages
...be destined. Doubtless she felt, without defining it, what a later critic has said, that he was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." The lad's loneliness began early. It was the loneliness of one who was so loving 12 toward his kind,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1905 - 618 pages
...and personal source in the association of this peaceful homestead with the earliest years of that " beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." However derived, the charm is such that the dweller takes leave of Field PART OF THE FLOWER GARDEN.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1905 - 354 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,' VIII COUNT LEO TOLSTOI1 IN reviewing at the time of its first publication, thirty years ago, Flaubert's... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - English literature - 1905 - 410 pages
...conduct and of society. Matthew * Ten-syllable lines rhyming aba, cbc, dcd, etc. Arnold called him "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." But beauty such as Shelley's verse embodies cannot be ineffectual; and his burning plea for freedom,... | |
 | William Morton Payne - English poetry - 1907 - 404 pages
...play of his wings, one hears them rustle." Arnold, making use of this image, describes Shelley as "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." The poetical form of this characterisation serves to impress it upon the memory, but it must be reckoned,... | |
 | Anna Robeson Brown Burr - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1909 - 468 pages
...idealist! But enough of carping. Some of us must walk the earth, yet reverencing still that type of "beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." For the reader, the value of Franklin's autobiography lies in our being able to trace therein the growth... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1910 - 490 pages
...ecstasy at times so far above the earthly and material. Matthew Arnold well described Shelley as "A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." ADONAIS AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS I WEEP for Adonais — he is dead ! Oh, weep for Adonais... | |
 | 1911 - 174 pages
...which exhibit all the errors of the revolutionary epoch, exhibit also the better spirit of the time. " Beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain" — so he is described by Mr. Matthew Arnold. " The real is the true world for a great poet, but it... | |
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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. 
