 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 - Slavery - 1848 - 430 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... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 612 pages
...cannot add one atom to the universe : the poet can call a universe from the atom.''' — Zanoni. fined, but evanescent joys : and in this he does well, for...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being."* To the imaginative mind, " there is beauty everywhere." All forms and objects teem for it with spiritual... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 614 pages
...cannot add one atom to the universe : the poet can call a universe from the atom." — Zanoni. fined, but evanescent joys : and in this he does well, for...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being."* To the imaginative mind, " there is beauty everywhere." All forms and objects teem for it with spiritual... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs itri more refined but evanescent joys ; und in this, he does well ; for it is good to feel that...wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratification*, but admits, in measures which may Ы; indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delight*... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...ethereal essence, arre'sts and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together ita scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...sentiments and delights •worthy of a higher being. — Channing. CAUSES OF WAK. [To be marked for Inflections by the student.] What are sufficient causes... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...and condenses ita volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its raore refined but evanescent joys; and in this he does well;...which may be indefinitely enlarged) sentiments and dclights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys;...this he does well; for it is good to feel that life in not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 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. EXTRACT XXV. Permanence of Literary Monuments. JAMES MONTGOMERY. An eloquent but extravagant writer... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered lieauties, and prolongs ils more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does...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... | |
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