 | Hastings Rashdall - 1877 - 596 pages
...excitavi cordibus ; addita Labris inexpertis loquella est *Aetheriam paritura mentem. 1 " I gave men speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe." Shelley, Prom. Unbound. 24 Praenuntiarum conditor artium Vocabor unus ; non alius bonis Monstravit... | |
 | Education - 1914 - 892 pages
...quoting, with some emphasis, the lines in which Shelley, speaking of the Deity, tells us He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. These be high thoughts and somewhat removed from the sphere of the working schoolmaster, though worthy... | |
 | Sophocles, Richard C. Jebb - Drama - 1976 - 296 pages
...lofty,' in which sense avcpocx could be said only of a high place. Cp. Shelley, Prometheus: 'He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.' Soph, does not imply that speech created thought ; he is rather thinking of them as developed (in their... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...81 The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. The Defence of Poetry 82 He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure...And Science struck the thrones of earth and heaven. Prometheus Unbound 1820 83 Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes what e'er it touches; and... | |
 | Eugene Edmond White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 328 pages
...a practical instrument for effecting change. Shelley had this sense when he wrote that "He gave man speech, and speech created thought, / Which is the measure of the universe." Speech gives us the enormous advantage of flexibility in dealing with a changing environment. As conditions... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...wheresoe'er thou shinest. (Fr. II) CH; EnRP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; OAEL-2; PoEL-4; PoE 54 He gave man ving slut Who keeps the till. Now that my (Fr. II) 55 Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal Love.... | |
 | Steven Goldsmith - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 346 pages
...that it aspires to the condition of music. Before Jupiter's tyranny, under the guidance of Prometheus, "the harmonious mind / Poured itself forth in all-prophetic.../ Godlike, o'er the clear billows of sweet sound" (2.4.75—79). The liberation narrative that constitutes most of the play involves a return to this... | |
 | Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 330 pages
...rectified Reason. In her narration Asia speaks as if all value derived from Prometheus: "He gave man speech, and speech created thought, / Which is the measure of the universe" (ii.iv.72-3). But Earth speaks differendy in the closing scene more impersonally as well as with a... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...gems and poisons, and all subdest forms 70 Hidden beneath the mountains and the waves. He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure...sound; And human hands first mimicked and then mocked, so With moulded limbs more lovely than its own, The human form, till marble grew divine; And mothers,... | |
 | Alan Tormaid Campbell - Indians of South America - 1995 - 266 pages
...like some beast of prey Most terrible, but lovely, played beneath The frown of man . . . He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the Universe. From Aeschylus and Shelley, and from Amazonian Indians, come two audacious suggestions: that the gift... | |
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Hidden beneath the mountains and the waves. He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe... 
