 ... 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 - Pàgina 11per William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 603 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1828 - 592 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 pàgines
...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...is more and more needed as society advances. It is indeed to withstand the encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilization... | |
 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 pàgines
...which poetry renders to mankind, that it redeems them from the thraldom of this earthborn prudence. It is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being." This refinement pervaded his whole character, gave a charm to his domestic habits and social pleasures,... | |
 | 1836 - 332 pàgines
...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. CHANNINO. SECOND APPROACH OF CORTES TO THE CITY OF MEXICO. PASSING the night in a little hamlet on... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pàgines
...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...indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more needed... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 444 pàgines
...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...but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely edargsd, sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 686 pàgines
...scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And 1n this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, that make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 pàgines
...scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent ¡oys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped...for subsistence, and physical gratifications, but admite, in measures which nray be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments, and delightu worthy of a higher... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 pàgines
...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...worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refme our views of life and happiness, is more and more needed as society advances. It is needed to... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pàgines
...sentence, ending with a rising inflection, has the falling slide on its penultimate word or clause. usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications,...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. LESSON XXI. CAUSES OF WAR. H. BINNEY. [To be marked for Inflections, by the reader.] What are sufficient... | |
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