 It is not true that the poet paints a life which does not exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined...  HAND-BOOK OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS; - Page 482by GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 428 pages
...arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolong« its more refined but evanescent joys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that Ufe is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - Essays - 1857 - 378 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys....sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry, to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more needed as society... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...scattered beanties, and prolongs its more refined hat evanescent joys; and in this he does well; forit is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by...cares for subsistence and physical gratifications, bnt admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of u higher... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together. its scattered beauties, ami prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys ; and...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society advances.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beautio% and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our vicws of life and happiness is more and more needed as socicty advances.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 854 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered bsauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well ; for it is gocd to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys ; and in this he docs well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...prolongs its more refined but evanescent Jbys; and in this 1 he does well; for it is good to feel 1 that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratification, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights1... | |
 | Charles Wesley - Bible - 1864 - 744 pages
...he only extracts and concentrates life's volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being."* Poetry is the sublime and beautiful expressed in measured language. It should be as music to the ear,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed as society advances.... | |
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