The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of the poetical faculty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.


In: Fanny Delisle, A Study of Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry" (Volume 1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of the poetical faculty, ...

The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of the poetical faculty, ...

The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of the poetical faculty, ...

The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of the poetical faculty, ...