 | United States - 1827 - 634 pages
...and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True ; poetry has been made the instrument...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Christian literature, English - 1828 - 60 pages
...and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True ; poetry has been made the instrument...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True ; poetry has been made the instrument...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True ; poetry has been made the instrument of rice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies \»tth suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, pasiagvs true... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True ; poetry has been made the instrument...misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. rStrains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. ' We accordingly believe that poefry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and pails with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 622 pages
...and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity; that is, to spiritualize our nature. Ti'ue, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our... | |
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In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True ; poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its... 
