| Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 pages
...and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with sufiering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our... | |
| Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - American literature - 1846 - 366 pages
...and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indgination at thehollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral... | |
| Salem Town - Elocution - 1847 - 420 pages
...poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. 7. Strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the svorld, passages... | |
| Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...parts with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoraJ work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strtiins of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, image? of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue,...scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, pa.-Miges true to our moral nature, often escupe in an inir moral work, and show us how hard it is... | |
| American literature - 1853 - 334 pages
...parts with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages... | |
| Popular educator - 1854 - 940 pages
...parts with much of it» power ; and even when Poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forge't her true vocation. Strains...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innoeent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or Indignation at the hollowness... | |
| Salem Town - Readers - 1854 - 412 pages
...what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world*passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural... | |
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