 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 432 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... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - Bible - 1889 - 434 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...In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the s:im<! tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1890 - 1074 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...mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from Dressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble In its legitimate... | |
 | WILLIAM E. CHANNING, D.D. - 1891 - 1074 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... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - Books and reading - 1893 - 444 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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1894 - 1080 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...refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above I •dinary life, gives it a respite from ' Dressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...an energy equal to great effects. — The Life and Character of Napoleon Bonaparte. POETRY. Poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 930 pages
...Ellery Channiiig the elder epitomize some striking thoughts on this subject: " We believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...tendency and aim with Christianity, — that is, to spiritualize our nature. . . . The present life, which is the first stage of the immortal mind, abounds... | |
 | Medicine - 1906 - 826 pages
...Channing, in his celebrated "Defense of Poetry," we believe "that poetry is one of the great instruments of refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above...consciousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble." Our best literature — Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Bacon, Fenelon, is, as the distinguished Mr. Curtis... | |
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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... 
