 It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest...  The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]. - Page 208edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 260 pages
...we shall see how the " enigma," which Sir W. Jones names, may be solved. (To be continued.) POBTBY reveals to us the loveliness of Nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - American literature - 1846 - 366 pages
...mighty nature, which are full of power, which command awe, and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy. Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind...beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life ; to lift it in a purer element ; and to breathe into it a more profound and generous emotion. It reveals to us... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...mighty nature, which are full of power, which command awe, and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy. Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind...breathe into it more profound and generous emotion. 9. It reveals to us the loveliness of nature ; brings back the freshness of youthful feeling ; revives... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 612 pages
...the exponents of that grace and that beauty. " Its great tendency and purpose is to carry the mind above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life;...it more profound and generous emotion. * * * * It is not true that the poet paints a life which does not exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...mighty nature, which are full of power, which command awe, and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy. Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind...beyond and above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinafy life; to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into it'more profound and generous emotion.... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 614 pages
...great tendency and purpose is to carry the mind above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordi- . nary life ; to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe...it more profound and generous emotion. * * * * It is not true that the poet paints a life which does not exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 160 pages
...happiness, for which it was created. Its great tendency and purpose is to carry the mind above and beyond the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life ;...purer element ; and to breathe into it more profound -enerous emotion. WOMAN S WORK. What, let me ask, is woman's work ? It is to be a minister of Christian... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...poetical literature. " The great tendency of poetry," says Charming, hi his masterly essay on Milton, " is, to carry the mind beyond and above the beaten,...more profound and generous emotion. It reveals to us tha loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...nature, which are full of power, which command awe, and excite a deep, though shuddering sympathy. Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind...into a purer element ; and to breathe into it more proTHE GLADNESS OF NATURE. 207 found and generous emotion. It reveals to us the loveliness of nature,... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...deep though shuddering sympathy. Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind above and beyond the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life ;...loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed... | |
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