"Kind-heartedness" Quotes from Famous Books
... not insert it,' Leigh Hunt writes in his valuable and interesting preface to this poem, when he printed it in 1832, 'because I thought that the public at large had not become sufficiently discerning to do justice to the sincerity and kind-heartedness of the spirit that walked in this flaming robe of verse.' Days of outrage have passed away, and with them the exasperation that would cause such an appeal to the many to be injurious. Without being aware of them, they at one time ... — The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley |