...richest jo\-s, the loftiest aspirations, and the special experiences of the human heart. "Poetry is the divinest of all arts; for it is the breathing...sentiment which is deepest and sublimest in human nature." Its finest productions are those which utter the sours intense thirst for God — "As the hart panteth...

...Kind of inspiration, and wrote his great works with something of the conscious dignity of a prophet. We agree with Milton in his estimate of poetry. It...that principle or sentiment, which is deepest and sublimes! in human nature ; we mean, of that thirst or aspiration, to which no mind is wholly a stranger,...

...kind of inspiration, and wrote his great works with something of the conscious dignity of a prophet. We agree with Milton in his estimate of poetry. It...of that thirst or aspiration, to which no mind is wholy a stranger,- for something purer and lovelier, something more powerful, lofty, and thrilling...

...kind of inspiration, and wrote his great works with something of the conscious dignity of a prophet. We agree with Milton in his estimate of poetry. It seems to us the divinest of all arts , tor it is the breathing or expression of that sentiment which is deepest and sublimest in human nature...

...himself as a kind of inspiration, and wrote his great works with the conscious dignity of a prophet. We agree with Milton in his estimate of poetry. It...we mean, of that thirst or aspiration, to which no rnind is wholly a Btranger, for something nurer and lovelier, something more powerful, lofty and thrilling,...

...kind of inspiration, and wrote his great works with something of the conscious dignity of a prophet. It seems to us the divinest of all arts ; for it is...of that principle or sentiment which is deepest and sublimcst in human nature, — we mean of that thirst or aspiration to which no mind is wholly a stranger,...

...a breathing sleep. A VINDICATION OF POETKY. POETRY has sometimes, and perhaps justly, been esteemed the divinest of all arts; for it is the breathing...sentiment which is deepest and sublimest in human nature: in other words, of that thirst or aspiration, to which no mind is wholly a stranger, for something...

...further illustrative of Dr. Channing's views, we must close : 'We agree with Milton in his estiimitR of poetry. It seems to us the divinest of all arts; for it is il. • breathing or impression of that principle or sentiment, which is deepest and suhlimest in human...

...kind of inspiration, and wrote his great works with something of the conscious dignity of a prophet. We agree with Milton in his estimate of poetry. It...expression of that principle or sentiment which is the deepest and sublimest in human nature ; we mean of that thirst or aspiration to which no mind is...

...kind of inspiration, and wrote his great works with something of the conscious dignity of a prophet. We agree with Milton in his estimate of poetry. It...is the breathing or expression of that principle or seniimeut, which is deepest and sublimest in human nature ; we mean, of that thirst or aspiration,...