 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
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...arrests and condenses its volatile fr&grance, brings together its scattered beauties, and pro40 longs its more refined but evanescent joys ; and in this...well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly * A negative sentence, ending with a rising inflection, has the falling slide on its penultimate word... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifiedlions, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely...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... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1827 - 516 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 Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 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 irtbre and more needed as society... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1845 - 436 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 - Conduct of life - 1845 - 196 pages
...ethereal essence ; arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...physical gratifications, but admits, in. measures Vvhich may be inTHE POETRY OF LIFE. definitely enlarged, sentiments, and delights worthy of a higher... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 pages
...ethereal essence ; arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physicat gratifications, but admits, in measures which n:ay be in[^definitely enlarged, sentiments,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...e'ssence, arr'ests and conden'ses/ its volatile fra'grance, brings together/ its scattered be'auties, and prolongs its more refi'ned/ but evane'scent jo'ys...th'is/ he does we'll ; for/ it is good to fe'el that * In this example we perceive the restraining power of the stronglyqualifying word "but." Though there... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - American literature - 1846 - 366 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... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1847 - 538 pages
...ethereal essence; arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brin ITS together it-s scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys;...is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by rare« for subsistence, and physical gratification«, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely... | |
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