 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 - 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... | |
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