 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...vice, the pan'der of ba'd-passions ; b'ut/ when genius thus sto'ops/, it dim's its fi'res, and parts with mu'ch of its po'wer ; and/ even when poetry is...lice'ntiousness or misan'thropy, she cannot wholly forget her * The relative pronouns, in whatever case they occur, require a pau9 before them, except when preceded... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1845 - 264 pages
...instrument ef vice, the pander of bad passions; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and" parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains, of pure feeling, touches of tenderness,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness,... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - American literature - 1846 - 366 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and even when poetry is enslaved...sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indgination at thehollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral... | |
 | Salem Town - Elocution - 1847 - 420 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. 7. Strains of pure feeling, touches of... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions; but when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power; and even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness and misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is...passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoraJ work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strtiins of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, image? of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue,...scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, pa.-Miges true to our moral nature, often escupe in an inir moral work, and show us how hard it is... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions : but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is enslaved to licentiousness or misanPOl] CYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE thropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 334 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions, but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages... | |
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... with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the 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 ; but, when... 
