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" ... affinity 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,... "
Museum of Foreign Literature and Science - Page 240
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

Theology - 1826 - 548 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...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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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of...escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance with...
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American Tracts

United States - 1827 - 634 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...escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance with...
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Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the ...

William Ellery Channing - Christian literature, English - 1828 - 60 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...escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance with...
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Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the ...

William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 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...escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alii- I ance...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 29

Great Britain - 1828 - 562 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...suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the holJowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 29

Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...instrument of rice, 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...tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies \»tth suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, pasiagvs true...
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Pamphleteer: Dedicated to Both Houses of Parliament, to be ..., Volume 29

Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 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...misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her true vocation. rStrains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 17

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions ; but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and pails with much of its power ; and, even when poetry is...escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance with...
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Discourses, Reviews, and Miscellanies

William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 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...escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance with...
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