 ... refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency...  Essay on Language - Sayfa 244Rowland Gibson Hazard tarafından - 1889 - 400 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1826 - 548 sayfa
...of its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True ; poetry has beeu made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 sayfa
...of its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize...misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. rStrains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering... | |
 | 1828 - 592 sayfa
...of its affinity with what 'is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize...nature. True ; poetry has been made the instrument of rice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 sayfa
...legitimate and highest efforts it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualise our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument...but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and pails with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy,... | |
 | 1832 - 478 sayfa
...highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity; that is, to spiritualize our-nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument of vice,...its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and eyen when Poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation.... | |
 | 1836 - 332 sayfa
...of its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize...even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthrofy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation, trains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness,... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 sayfa
...of its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity, that is, to spiritualize...the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoop* it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 sayfa
...what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim witr Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature....has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of baa passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 374 sayfa
...of its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize...the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions : bnt when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and even when... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 sayfa
...its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, te spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made...of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousneэu or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling,... | |
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