 It is 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...  HAND-BOOK OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS; - Page 482by GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beautics, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society advances.... | |
 | United States - 1827 - 634 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society advances.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys....sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more needed as society... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society advances.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Christian literature, English - 1828 - 60 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society advances.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys ; and in this he does well ; fot k is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society advances.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys....sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more needed as society... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, 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, and physical gratifications, but admits,... | |
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