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 E. CHANNING, D.D. - 1891 - 1074 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, |Xx 5g A p \0 ? ~ 8:8 4e / J r Θ v %ك & L yf 3 q$} fee] that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications, but admits,... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 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... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 578 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. — The Character and Writings of Milton. THOUGHT. I have said that the elevation of man is to be sought,... | |
| William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1900 - 1080 pages
...arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and proJongs 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... | |
| Christian Science - 1916 - 814 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. — William Ellery Channing. 42 POWER OF LOVE AND GENTLENESS Love Nature — The Great Question —... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1921 - 506 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. VI. MOUNTAINS. William Howitt, 1795-1879, was an English author. He published many books, and was associated... | |
| Garry Moes - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 132 pages
...ethereal essense, 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. From The Poet "William EUery Charming (17OO-184Q 0 how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 798 pages
...volatile fragranee, brings together its seattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evaneseent joys; and in this he does well; for it is good to feel that life is not whelly usurped by eares for subsistenee and physieal gratifieations, but admits, in measures whieh... | |
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