
(1st January 1831) Christmas Carol
The London Literary Gazette, 1831
The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act II, scene 2.
(1st January 1831) Christmas Carol
The London Literary Gazette, 1831
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.373-4
Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Ownership, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"The Silent Shepherds" (1958)
Context: I will have shepherds for my philosophers,
Tall dreary men lying on the hills all night
Watching the stars, let their dogs watch the sheep. And I'll have lunatics
For my poets, strolling from farm to farm, wild liars distorting
The country news into supernaturalism —
For all men to such minds are devils or gods — and that increases
Man's dignity, man's importance, necessary lies
Best told by fools.