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 Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...ethereal essences ; 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 a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more needed... | |
| Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 362 pages
...etherial 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... | |
| Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 374 pages
...conan on e~> ^'* ->>erial essence, arrests > volatile fiagmnce, bringa 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 - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 444 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered ' beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys....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 - Theology - 1843 - 686 pages
...fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And 1n 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... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent ¡oys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel...for subsistence, and physical gratifications, but admite, in measures which nray be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments, and delightu worthy of a higher... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 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 refme our views of life and happiness, is more and more needed as society advances.... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys;...subsistence and physical gratifications, but admits, in measure which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. 1. What... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...arrests and condenses its volatile frigrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and pro40 16ngs its more refined but evanescent joys ; and in this...wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratificitions, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights... | |
| 1844 - 1128 pages
...life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, collects its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined, but evanescent joys;...does well, for it is good to feel that life is not only occupied by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures which may... | |
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