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Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury
(1671-1713)
"Shaftesbury, den ich nur zu nennen brauche, um
jedem Gebildeten einen trefflichen Denker in's Gedächtniß zu
rufen."
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, in his funeral address Zum brüderlichen
Andenken for Christoph Martin Wieland (1813)
Shaftesbury,
an author at present unjustly depreciated."
- William Wordsworth (1815)
Wordsworth, Essay, Supplementary to the Preface of
the first collective edition of the Poems (1815): »Writing
about the same time, Shaftesbury, an author at present unjustly
depreciated, describes the English Muses as only yet lisping in their
cradles.«
(The Poetical Works of Wordsworth, with Introduction and
Notes, edited by Thomas Hutchinson, a New Edition, revised by Ernest de
Selincourt, Oxford University Press 1936 repr. 1964, p. 746.)
"I bask in the sun on the grass
reading Virgil, that is, my beloved Bucolics & Ld Shaftesbury’s
Characteristics."
- Mary W.
Shelley, 8. April 1825.
Betty T. Bennett (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley, Baltimore and London, 1980-88, vol. 1, p. 476.
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2 December 1705,
Shaftesbury to a friend:
"Life is vain ('tis true) to those that make it so. And
let those cry vanity, for they have reason. For my own
part, who never could be in love with riches or the world, nor ever
made any great matter of life, so as to love it for its own sake, I
have therefore no falling out with it, now at last when I can no longer
keep it; so without calling names or giving hard words, I can part
freely with and give it a good testimony. No harm in it all that I
know; no vanity. But (if one wills oneself) a fair,
honest, sensible thing it is, and not so uncomfortable as it is made.
No, nor so over-comfortable as to make one melancholy at the thoughts
of parting with it, or as to make one think the time exceeding short and passing. For why so short if
not sound and sweet?"
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