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We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great
instruments of its refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life,
gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its ...
We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great
instruments of its refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life,
gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its ...
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... strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest
and loftiest feelings , spreads our sympathies over all classes of society , knits us
by new ties with universal being , and , through the brightness of its prophetic ...
... strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest
and loftiest feelings , spreads our sympathies over all classes of society , knits us
by new ties with universal being , and , through the brightness of its prophetic ...
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This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more
needed as society advances. It is needed to withstand the encroachments of
heartless and artificial manners, which make civilization so tame and
uninteresting.
This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more
needed as society advances. It is needed to withstand the encroachments of
heartless and artificial manners, which make civilization so tame and
uninteresting.
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Johnson's mind acted chiefly on man's actual condition , on the realities of life ,
on the springs of human action , on the passions which now agitate society , and
he seems hardly to have dreamed of a higher state of the human mind than was ...
Johnson's mind acted chiefly on man's actual condition , on the realities of life ,
on the springs of human action , on the passions which now agitate society , and
he seems hardly to have dreamed of a higher state of the human mind than was ...
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to be done, and everything to be avoided; but an inculcation of broad principles,
which it intrusts to individuals and to society to be applied according to their best
discretion. It is through this generous peculiarity, that Christianity is fitted to be a ...
to be done, and everything to be avoided; but an inculcation of broad principles,
which it intrusts to individuals and to society to be applied according to their best
discretion. It is through this generous peculiarity, that Christianity is fitted to be a ...
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Página 87 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Página 44 - ... to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness...
Página 20 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Página 45 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 27 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 84 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Página 55 - ... in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty...
Página 42 - For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands ; much better would it like him doubtless to be the messenger of gladness and contentment, which is his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness.
Página 59 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
Página 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
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| Título | Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian Doctrine |
| Autor | William Ellery Channing |
| Edición | 3 |
| Editor | B. Perkins, 1828 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 17 Feb. 2006 |
| Largo | 116 páginas |
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