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
| William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 622 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; lor it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,... | |
| A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 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... | |
| American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolong* its more refined but evanescent joys ; and in this...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... | |
| lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 pages
...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,... | |
| James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragance, 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 - 1834 - 626 pages
...fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And iu this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life...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... | |
| 1835 - 616 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... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 358 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 - 1835 - 484 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... | |
| Literature - 1836 - 332 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. CHANNINO. SECOND APPROACH OF CORTES TO THE CITY OF MEXICO. PASSING the night in a little hamlet on... | |
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