...1). Dit word gesê van die man, waarvan die egois, die sienikus Byron moes erken: „As to Shelley, he is to my knowledge the least selfish and the mildest of men — a man who had made more sacrifices of his fortune and feeling for others than any one I have ever heard of 2)."...

...sailed to see Leigh Hunt and Byron at Pisa. " Shelley," wrote Byron to Moore, four months earlier, " is to my knowledge, the least selfish and " the mildest...men — a man who has made more " sacrifices of his fortunes and feelings for others " than any other I have ever heard of. With his " speculative opinions...

...man who has made more " sacrifices of his fortunes and feelings for others " than any other I have ever heard of. With his " speculative opinions I have nothing in common, " nor desire to have." A few days after his letter to Murray, he wrote, " There is thus another man " gone, about whom the...

...I am to write a drama, I must make my characters speak as I conceive them likely to argue. "As for poor Shelley, who is another bugbear to you and the...of men; a man who has made more sacrifices of his future and feelings for others than any I ever heard of. With his speculative opinions I have nothing...

...arising between them. What Byron thought of Shelley his own words will tell : — " As to poor Shelley, he is, to my knowledge, the least selfish " and the...and feelings for others than any I ever heard of." " You were all mistaken about Shelley, who was, without exception, "the best and least selfish man...

...from a man possessing the concentrated selfishness of Lord Byron that Shelley was " the least selfish of men — a man who has made more sacrifices of his...and feelings for others than any I ever heard of," we cannot help believing him. It was no casual expression of opinion, for Byron repeated his conviction...