 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 444 pages
...power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens WRtTINGS Of WLTOX. 9 the consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate... | |
 | Albany (N.Y.) - 1844 - 104 pages
...1-52 Dr. Channingon Poetry. — Poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressed cares, and awakens the consciousness of its efficacy with what is pure and noble. In its... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1843 - 686 pages
...power, splendour, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...that is, to spiritualise our nature. True, poetry bas been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...created. 9 '• We accordingly believe that poetry, so far from injuring society, is one of the greal instruments of its refinement and exaltation. It lifts...ordinary life ; gives it a respite from depressing caree, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...lower than the first. LESSON XX. POETRY. CHANNING. [Marked for Inflections] We believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of 5 its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1845 - 436 pages
...power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...build her trust in Providence. LESSON CLXII. The Influence of Poetry. CHANNING. WE believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...which manifest its thirst for a more powerful and joyful existence. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with \vhat is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with... | |
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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 affinity... 
