 | 1872 - 786 pages
...early and constant excitant to intellectual energy. Poetry is nature. Though tainted by the human fall, strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with the good, scorn and indignation at all that is mean, shine conspicuously bright in its rich and varied... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 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 hollowness of the world, passages... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1875 - 948 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...suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollownessof the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 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 hollowuess of the world, passages true to our moral nature often escape in an immoral work, and show... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 412 pages
...sympathies with what is g6od in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the w6rld, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in...gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is i/bod. 3. Poetry has a natural alliance with our best affections. It delights in the beauty and sublimity... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 404 pages
...much of its power; and even when Poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, 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 hollowuess of the world, passages... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 412 pages
...feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is g6od in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our mbral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 494 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...touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, Ejmpathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollo wness of the world, passages... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1890 - 1074 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 of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, ¡mages of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at... | |
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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. 
