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
| 1865 - 496 pages
...all true healthy poetry is, in the words of Dr. Channing, " to carry the mind beyond and above the dusty, weary walks of ordinary life, to lift it into...reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back to us the freshness of early feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the... | |
| Great Britain - 1865 - 980 pages
...words of Dr. Channing, " to carry jhe mind beyond and above the dusty, weary walks of ordinary Me, to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into...generous emotion. It reveals to us the loveliness of mature, brings back to us the freshness of early feeling, revives the re!i?h of simple pleasures, keeps... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...excite a deep though .shuddering sympathy. Its great tendency and purpose is to carry the mind bejond and above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary...into a purer element, and to breathe into it more profjund and generous emotion. It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 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. It re veals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 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. 4 It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...which are full of power, which command awe, and excite a deep, though shuddering sympathy. Its great purpose is, to carry the mind beyond and above the...— to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into.it more profound and generous emotion. It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings bac'k... | |
| Ann Amelia Searle - 1866 - 116 pages
...ALDEKSU1TE STREET, EC PREFACE. IT has been beautifully remarked by an anonymous writer that "Poetry 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... | |
| Joseph Edwin Frobisher - Elocution - 1867 - 276 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...breathe into it more profound and generous emotion. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more niul more needed as society... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 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...and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotions. 11. It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling,... | |
| Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pages
... I SUNDAY READINGS. " POETBT 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 wanned... | |
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