 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
 | 1856 - 428 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...loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simule pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm, which warmed... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 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. 255 found and generous emotion. It reveals to us the loveliness of nature,... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 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...lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into it a more profound and generous emotion. It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1856 - 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...dusty, weary walks of ordinary life; to lift it into a purei element, and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotion. 9. It reveals to us the loveliness... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1856 - 188 pages
...Remarks (pp. 73-4): — The great tendency and purpose of poetry is to carry the mind above and beyond the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life to...breathe into it more profound and generous emotion. To have even our earthly being extended in everlasting remembrance to be known wherever the name of... | |
 | John Wilson - Abbreviations, English - 1856 - 360 pages
...Remarks (pp. 120-21) : — The great tendency and purpose of poetry is to carry the mind above and beyond the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life to...breathe into it more profound and generous emotion. (Rule, and Remark c.) He was framed to enjoy equally the fire of poetic or the abstruseness of philosophical... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1856 - 200 pages
...and purpose of poetry is to carry the mind above and beyond the beaten dusty weary walks of ordi nary life to lift it into a purer element and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotion. Write on your slate the following example Mary and John will go. The great, the wise and the good were... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...beauty, truth, and virtue which surround them. "Now such poetry," to use the words of a great author, " reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of early feelings, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps un quenched the enthusiasm which warmed the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 364 pages
...verb,. and have a common nominative on which they depend, as in the following passage: "Poetry \ reeeals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of early feeling, reeives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiaom which warmed the spring-time... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes Morison - English language - 1856 - 92 pages
...When each clause commences with a verb, having one common nominative, the comma is used ; as, Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of early feelings, revives the relish of simple pleasures, and keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed... | |
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