 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
 | Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 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.... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 404 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. CHANNU.O. 10. FALSTAFF. [This extract affords an example of "humorous style," with prevailing circumflex... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 450 pages
...essence, arrests and con- , denses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beau- ' ties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratification, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 412 pages
...beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent jbys. And in tMs he does well; for it is gbod to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. 10. FALSTAFF. [This extract affords an example of "humorous style," with prevailing circumflex inflections.]... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American literature - 1884 - 454 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratification, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 494 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. — The Character and Writings of Milton. THOUGHT. I have said that the elevation of man is to be sought,... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1886 - 416 pages
...leauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in tins he does well; for it is gbod to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for...enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of a higher bbing. 10. FALSTAFF. [This extract affords an example of "humorous style," with prevailing circumflex... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1889 - 460 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys...wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratification, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely en*/ larged, sentiments and delights... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - Bible - 1889 - 434 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragments, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys....well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usr-ped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures which may be... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 432 pages
...ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragments, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys....well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usv-ped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures which may be... | |
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