 | J C Hutchieson - 1878 - 634 pages
...of its melodies, And sparkle in its brightness." " THE great tendency of poetry," writes Channing, " is to carry the mind beyond and above the beaten,...It reveals to us the loveliness of Nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1883 - 360 pages
...residence at the place of instruction. The great purpose of poetry is to carry the mind above and beyond the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life ;...and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotions. He seems to have made an injudicious choice, though he is esteemed a sensible man To be useful... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 404 pages
...nature, which are full of power, which command awe, and excite a deep though shuddering Nl/mpUthi/. 4. Its great tendency and purpose is to carry the mind...It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 412 pages
...sympathy. 4. Its great tendency and purpose is to carry the mind beyond and abbve the beaten, dusty, w&iry walks of ordinary life; to lift it into a purer element,...and to breathe into it more profound and generous cmbtion. It reveals to us the liveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful fecUng, revives... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 412 pages
...nature, which are full of pbwer, which command awe, and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy. 4. Its great tendency and purpose is to carry the mind beyond and abbve the beaten, dusty, we'ary walks of ordinary life ; to lift it into a pforer element, and to breathe... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 494 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 ;...more profound and generous emotion. It reveals to uj the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of early feeling, revives the relish of simple... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1886 - 416 pages
...the mind beyond and abbve the beaten, dusty, we'ary walks of ordinary life; to lift it into a piirer element, and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotion. It reveals to us the liveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1887 - 258 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...It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of early feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 432 pages
...nature, which are full of power, which command awe, which excite a deep though shuddering sympathy. Its great tendency and purpose is to carry the mind...It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of early feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenehed the enthusiasm... | |
 | F. A. H. Eyles - English poetry - 1889 - 416 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." Born in Carmarthen in 1833, Mr. Lewis Morris was educated first at Cowbridge and Sherborne Schools,... | |
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Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind beyond and above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life; to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotion. 
