 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved...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
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved...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
...instrument of rice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies \»tth suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, pasiagvs true... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved...misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. rStrains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and eyen when Poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation....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
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved...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
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved...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... | |
 | Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions; but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power; and, even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanthrofy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation, trains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness,... | |
 | 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... | |
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... with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but, when... 
