 ... 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
 | John Swett - 1884 - 412 páginas
...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 an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is i/bod. 3. Poetry has a natural alliance... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 412 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 404 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 can not wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness,... | |
 | 1886 - 494 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...touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, Ejmpathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollo wness of the world, passages... | |
 | John Milton - 1887 - 258 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...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... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 432 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...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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1890 - 1074 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...vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, ¡mages of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at... | |
 | WILLIAM E. CHANNING, D.D. - 1891 - 1074 páginas
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and ound in drunkenness, if opportunities are afforded....unvaried ; because, in losing the consciousness of his tendcrness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1894 - 586 páginas
...vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with muc^ of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 578 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...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... | |
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