 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 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 good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 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 and indignation at the hollowness\if fjie world, passages... | |
 | 1856 - 428 pages
...parts with much of it« power ; and even when Poetry U enslaved to licentiousnee« and misanthropy, ehe cannot wholly forge't her true vocation. Strains of...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 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 good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 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...touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathics with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forgr-t her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly for•fXt hertrue vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our natuflp, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misan'thropy, she can not wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling,...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hoDowness of the world, passages... | |
 | Joseph Edwin Frobisher - Elocution - 1867 - 276 pages
...fires, and parts with much of its power ; and 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 and 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. 
