 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...wliich manifest its thirst for a more powerful and joyful existence. To a man of a literal and prosaick character, the mind may seem lawless in these workings...splendour, beauty and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of its... | |
 | United States - 1827 - 634 pages
...surrounding universe in the colours which the passions throw over it, and depicts the mind in those modes of repose or agitation, of tenderness or sublime emotion,...splendour, beauty and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of tne great instruments of its... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Christian literature, English - 1828 - 60 pages
...surrounding universe in the colours which the passions throw over it, and depicts the mind in those modes of repose or agitation, of tenderness or sublime emotion,...splendour, beauty and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of its... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...surrounding universe in the colors which the passions throw over it, and depicts the mind in those modes of repose or agitation, of tenderness or sublime emotion,...awakens, anticipates those States of progressive power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...tenderness or sublime emotion, which manifest its thirst for a more powerful and joyful existence. To am;m of a literal and prosaic character, the mind may seem...awakens, anticipates those states of progressive power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...existence. To a man of a literal and prosaic character, the mind may seem lawless in these workings ; hut it observes higher laws than it transgresses, the...awakens, anticipates those states of progressive power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...surrounding universe in the colors which the passions throw over it, and depicts the mind in those modes of repose or agitation, of tenderness or sublime emotion,...awakens, anticipates those states of progressive power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. ' We accordingly believe that poefry, far... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...surrounding universe in the colors which the passions throw over it, and depicts the soul in those modes of repose or agitation, of tenderness or sublime emotion,...awakens, anticipates those states of progressive power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 622 pages
...surrounding universe in the colors which the passions throw over it, and depicts the soul in those modes of repose or agitation, of tenderness or sublime emotion,...awakens, anticipates those states of progressive power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...intellect ; it is trying and developing iU best faculties; and, in the objects which it describes, or the emotions which it awakens, anticipates those states...splendour, beauty and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of its... | |
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... in those modes of repose or agitation, of tenderness or sublime emotion, which manifest its thirst for a more powerful and joyful existence. To a man of a literal and prosaic character, the mind may seem lawless in these workings; but it observes... 
