He was quoting almost directly from "Dorian Gray": "The love that [Basil] bore him... had nothing in it that was not noble and intellectual.
The word "people" in this passage more likely refers not to the common people but to those nobles and intellectuals who incite the ruler's ambition and aggressiveness.
Coleridge's financial means allowed him to entertain lavishly and to seek the company of nobles and intellectuals; Wordsworth's limited wealth constrained him to a quiet and modest life.
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In the famous essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," he charges intellectuals with the noble duty of uncovering political falsehood.
When Islam triumphed over Hinduism in Java (16th century), Bali became a refuge for many Hindu nobles, priests, and intellectuals.
Perhaps the Philharmonic feels it got burned by its experience with Zubin Mehta, who was 42 and hot when he was brought in to give the orchestra some pizazz after its noble experiment with the formidably intellectual Pierre Boulez, Bernstein's successor.
Science in general, and physics in particular, were apt to suffer from association with these supposedly degenerate values, making it inferior in the eyes of many intellectuals to the noble aspirations of art and 'higher culture'.
It's likely that this particular mechanism and the associated Antikythera treasures were en route to a Roman port, where they'd be sold to wealthy nobles who collected rare antiques and intellectual curiosities to adorn their homes.
The noble Confucian model of the morally grounded intellectual speaking truth to power in a single dramatic confrontation was called on so often as to become, seemingly by intention, an unnoble and relentless insistence.
