 | WILLIAM E. CHANNING, D.D. - 1891
...parts with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, Eڤ znn a % S .KO 5 - D y i Z0 n .pHlaĶ <(j Z* y֎ : rS' tendcrness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 564 pages
...and parts with muc^ of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show us Jiow hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828
...aud parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation Strains...escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it ii for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance with... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 784 pages
...tenderness, images of innoeent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of seorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often eseape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divoree itself wholly... | |
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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. 
