 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...1850. m. 177. THE INFLUENCE OF POETRY. ~VTT"E believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one VV of the great instruments of its refinement and exaltation....cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity wifh what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim... | |
 | Joseph Edwin Frobisher - Elocution - 1867 - 276 pages
...fastidious or hypercritical, if just, it can satisfy and delight. THE PURIFYING INFLUENCE OF POETRY. Poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with religion, — that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the in trumeut of vice,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. 8. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of its refmement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressing... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1868 - 544 pages
...power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. 8. 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. 9. True, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions;... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...his opposition to the . pernicious system. He died Oct. 2nd, 1842.] POETRY ! 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... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...POETRY1 is one of the great instruments1 of the refinement and exaltation of society. It lifts the mind1 above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity1 with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts1 it has the same tendency... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...power, splendor, beauty, and happiness, for which it was created. 8. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with whnt is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1872 - 168 pages
...blindness meditated undisturbed by the obscene tumult all around him a sublime and hoi}' song. Poetry far from injuring society is one of the great instruments of its refinement and exaltation. Strains of pure feeling touches of tenderness images of innocent happiness bursts of scorn or indignation... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...She died on the 12th of May, 1850. in. , 177. THE INFLUENCE OF POETRY. w ~E believe that poetry, fax from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity wifc what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pages
...the power, arts, and interests of the contrary party ; but these are all invidious topics. Poetry — far from injuring society — is one of the great instruments of its refinement. 7. And now the bell — the bell she had so often heard, by night and day, and listened to with solemn... | |
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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... 
