... not true that the poet paints a life which does not exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined... Discourses, Reviews, and Miscellanies - Página 11por William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 603 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 páginas
...scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanes'cent joys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. 10. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1867 - 842 páginas
...beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well ; for it is gocd to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for...and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of pootry to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more needed as society advances. It is... | |
| Joseph Edwin Frobisher - 1867 - 276 páginas
...life ; to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotion. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more niul more needed as society advances. It is needed to withstand the encroachments of heartless and... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 páginas
...scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. LIX. — THE TRIAL SCENE. > FBOM "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE." SHAKESPEARE. In the play of " The Merchant... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 páginas
...scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, that make civilization so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 páginas
...be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights1 worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry1 to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more noededl as society adv?i',ices. It is needed' to withstand the encroachments of heartless and artificial... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1870 - 764 páginas
...scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for liam Ellery hap* piness, is more and more needed as society advances. It is needed to withstand the encroachments... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 páginas
...scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. LIX. — THE TRIAL SCENE. FROM "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE." SHAKESPEARE. In the play of " The Merchant... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 páginas
...scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanes'cent joys ; and in this he does well , for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. 10. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society... | |
| H. Alcmar - 1877 - 376 páginas
...fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and...happiness is more and more needed as society advances." — Rev. WE CHANNING, DD, US "In an age busily occupied with matters practical, which often curb the... | |
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