 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 576 páginas
...of an earlier date, which has been omitted to avoid repetitions, he says on the same subject : — " You were all mistaken about Shelley, who was, without...exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew." There in aUn another passage in the came letter which, for its perfect truth, I must quote : — "... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 592 páginas
...an earlier date, which has been omitted to avoid repetitions, he says on the same subject : — « You were all mistaken about Shelley, who was, without...exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew.» There is also another passage in the same letter which, for its perfect truth, I must quote : — «... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1833 - 678 páginas
...Murray, of an earlier date, which has been omitted to avoid repetitions, he says on the same subject, ' You were ' all mistaken about Shelley, who was, without...exception, the best and ' least selfish man I ever knew.' There is also another passage in the same letter which, for its perfect truth, I must quote : — '... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 404 páginas
...Murray, of an earlier date, which hat been omitted to avoid repetitions, he says on the same subject, " You were all mistaken about Shelley, who was, without...exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew." There is also another passage in the same letter which, for its perfect truth, I must quote: — "... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 356 páginas
...; and as perfect a gentleman as ever crossed a drawing-room, when he liked, and where he liked : he was, without exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew." It would be injustice to Mr. Moore not to repeat his testimony to the worth and amiableness of poor... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 332 páginas
...; and as perfect a gentleman as ever crossed a drawing-room, when he liked, and whjie he liked : he was, without exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew." It would be injustice to Mr. Moore not to repeat his testimony to the worth and amiableness of poor... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 396 páginas
...Murray, of an earlier date, which has been omitted to avoid repetitions, he says on the same subject, " You were all mistaken about Shelley, who was, without...exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew." There is also another passage in the same letter which, for its perfect truth, I must quote: — "... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 páginas
...perhaps, by the purity of Shelley's counsels and example, than by any other influences, said of him, " you were all mistaken about Shelley, who was. without...exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew." Those who knew him best, were won by his estimable qualities, to speak of him in terms of highest praise... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 páginas
...an earlier date, which has been omitted !.o aroiil repetitions, he says on the same subject : — " You were all mistaken about Shelley, who was, without...exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew." There is also another passage in the same letter which, for its perfect truth, I must quote : — "... | |
 | Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - 1869 - 676 páginas
...in his manners and his style of thinking." " You were all mistaken," he wrote from Pisa to Murray, " about Shelley, who was, without exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew." And when he learned his death, he wrote to Moore:— " There is thus another man gone, about whom the world... | |
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You were all brutally mistaken about Shelley, who was, without exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew. I never knew one who was not a beast in comparison. 
