 ... 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 but evanescent...  The Works of William E. Channing, D. D. - Pàgina 11per William Ellery Channing - 1866Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1826 - 548 pàgines
...beautics, 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 by cares for...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilization so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
 | 1827 - 634 pàgines
...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 by cares for...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilization so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 60 pàgines
...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 by cares for...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilization so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pàgines
...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 by cares for...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pàgines
...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 by cares for...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilization so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
 | 1828 - 592 pàgines
...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 by cares for...indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of t higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pàgines
...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 by cares for...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 pàgines
...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 by cares for...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 622 pàgines
...beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; lor it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 pàgines
...and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it is good to leel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence,...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
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