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" The person who would treat such a subject must increase the ideal, and diminish the actual horror of the events, so that the pleasure which arises from the poetry which exists in these tempestuous sufferings and crimes may mitigate the pain of the contemplation... "
The British review and London critical journal - Page 382
1821
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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 1

1820 - 558 pages
...of the events, so that the ' pleasure which arises from the poetry which exists in these stu'pendous sufferings and crimes, may mitigate the pain of the...con'templation of the moral deformity from which they spring.' But in the most prominent of their sufferings and crimes, there can be no poetry, nor has poetry the...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...horror of the events, so that the pleasure which arises from ih« poetry which exists ici «h •- - , winning thy way Wilh sad yet patient soul, through...strange calamity! Ah ! slowly sink behind the western There must also be uotliing attempted to muke the exhibition subservient lo what is vulgarly termed...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...would treat such a subject, must increase the ideal, and diminish the actual horror of the events, ю in thy post By violence. Resist the Emperor, And if it must be, force with force There must also be nothing attempted to make the exhibition subservient to what is vulgarly termed...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with His Life, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...made them familiar to the sympatby of all succeeding generations of mankind. This story of the Cenci is indeed eminently fearful and monstrous : any thing...contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring. There must also be nothing attempted to make the exhihition subservient to what is vulgarly termed...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...would treat such a subject, must increase the ideal, and diminish the actual horror of the events, » that the pleasure which arises from the poetry which...contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring. There must also be nothing attempted to make the fitubitjon subservient to what is vulgarly termed...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...the pleasure which arises from the poetry which exists in these tempestuous sufferings and erimes, may mitigate the pain of the contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring. There must also be nothing attempted to mnke the exhibition subservient to what is vulgarly termed...
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Gregory VII: A Tragedy

Richard H. Horne - 1840 - 146 pages
...Shelley's fine preface to the " Cenci," wherein he meets the foregoing question in all its main bearings. " The person who would treat such a subject must increase...contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring. There must also be nothing attempted to make the exhibition subservient to what is vulgarly termed...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...its main bearings. 'The person who would treat such a subject must increase the ideal, and dimmish the actual, horror of the events, so that the pleasure...contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring. There must also be nothing attempted to make the exhibition subservient to what is vulgarly termed...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...which arises from the poetry which exists in these tempestuous sufferings and crimes, may mitipatc the pain of the contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring. There must also bo nothing attempted to make the exhibition subservient to what is vubarly termed a...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 450 pages
...generations of mankind. This story of the Cenci is indeed eminently fearful and monstrous : anything like a dry exhibition of it on the stage would be...contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring. There must also be nothing attempted to make the exhibition subservient to what is vulgarly termed...
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