 | Everett H. Emerson - American literature - 1977 - 328 pages
...following remarks in Notes on Virginia'. Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not... | |
 | Donna Landry - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 344 pages
...of More writing about Yearsley's plight: Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 500 pages
...above the level of plain narration. . . . Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry — Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not... | |
 | Alan Gallay - History - 1994 - 440 pages
...complicated harmony, is yet to be proved. Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not... | |
 | Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann - Philosophy - 1998 - 200 pages
...capable of imagining a small catch. . . . Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. — Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. . . . Religion indeed produced a Phyllis Whately [sic]; but it could not produce a poet. The compositions... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...environmentalist logic into anti-Negro shape. "Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. — Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the sense only, not... | |
 | Aimable Twagilimana - History - 1997 - 204 pages
...complicated harmony, is yet to be proved. Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not... | |
 | Philip G. Cohen - History - 1997 - 360 pages
...Virginia (Query XIV), Jefferson wrote: Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the particular oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...complicated harmony, is yet to be proved. Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. 17 from the Reverend Francis Asbury's journal Francis Asbury (1745-1816) Francis Asbury, born in England... | |
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Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. — Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. 
