 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1843 - 686 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...suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowncss of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousneэu or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, hursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowncss of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its 15 of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world,...how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wh6lly from what is good. 20 It delights in the beauty and sublimity of 6utward nature and of the soul.... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...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 g6od in our nature, bursts 15 of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 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, bürste of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Conduct of life - 1845 - 196 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...our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, arfd show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good, foetrv*... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...as " of whom," " of which," &; voc'ation. Stra'ins of pure fueling, tou'ches of ten'derness, mages of i'nnocent hap'piness, sym'pathies with suffering...h'ollowness of the world, pa'ssages/ tru'e to our moral n'alure, often escape in an inWoral-work, and sho'w us/ how ha'rd it is'/ for a givfted spirit/* to... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1827 - 516 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 what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1845 - 264 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... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 296 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... | |
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... of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance with our best affections. 
