...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry...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*...

...instrument of vice, the pander of baJ passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with sufiering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our...

...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions; but when genius thus atoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry...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...

...in'strument of vice, the pan'der of ba'd-passions ; b'ut/ when genius thus sto'ops/, it dim's its fi'res, and parts with mu'ch of its po'wer ; and/ even when poetry...lice'ntiousness or misan'thropy, she cannot wholly forget her * The relative pronouns, in whatever case they occur, require a pau9 before them, except when preceded...

...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, 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 of pure feeling, touches of tenderness,...

...instrument ef vice, the pander of bad passions; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, 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, of pure feeling, touches of tenderness,...

...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry...sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indgination at thehollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral...

...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. 7. Strains of pure feeling, touches of...

...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and, even when poetry...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...

...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, 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 of pure feeling, touches of tenderness,...