 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the holJowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot .wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies \»tth suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, pasiagvs true... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...parts with much of its power ; and eyen when Poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...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... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...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... | |
 | 1839 - 876 pages
...touches of tenderness, images of innocen happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts o •corn or indignation at the hollowness of the world passages...an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifte( spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good.": is perverted, then, from its true purpose,... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1835 - 724 pages
...and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immortal work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is... | |
 | 1839 - 914 pages
...lustre, amid the wildest and darkest formations. In the language of the author before quoted, poetry "cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of...suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowncss of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 362 pages
...and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indgination at the hollo wness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 374 pages
...and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains...sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indgination at the hollo wness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an... | |
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... of the world, 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 good. Poetry has a natural alliance with our best affections. 
