 ... 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 been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions; but,...  Museum of Foreign Literature and Science - Página 240editado por - 1828Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 páginas
...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 misan'thropy, she can not wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of... | |
 | Joseph Edwin Frobisher - 1867 - 276 páginas
...dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation....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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 páginas
...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 true feeling, touches of tenderness,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 páginas
...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 Poetry. 83 licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 páginas
...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 true feeling, touches of tenderness,... | |
 | 1872 - 786 páginas
...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 - 1873 - 614 páginas
...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 misan'thropy, she can not wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1875 - 948 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1875 - 448 páginas
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 páginas
...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...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... | |
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