 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often...affections. It delights in the beauty and sublimity of outward nature and of the soul. It indeed portrays with terrible energy, the excesses of the passions... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often...alliance with our best affections. It delights in the oeauty and sublimity of outward nature and of the soul. It indeed portrays with terrible energy, the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often...itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alii- I ance with our best affections. It delights I in the beauty and sublimity of the outward/ creation... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often...affections. It delights in the beauty and sublimity of outward nature and of the soul. It indeed portrays with terrible energy the excesses of the passions,... | |
 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 pages
...felt even in the strict language of scientific description. " Poetry," says a fine modern writer, " has a natural alliance with our best affections. It...sublimity of the outward creation, and of the soul. Its great tendency and purpose is to carry the mind beyond and above the beaten, dusty, weary walks... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often...affections. It delights in the beauty and sublimity of outward nature and of the soul. It indeed portrays with terrible energy, the excesses of the passions;... | |
 | 1839 - 876 pages
...innocen happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts o •corn or indignation at the hollowness of the world passages true to our moral nature, often...an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifte( spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good.": is perverted, then, from its true purpose,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 358 pages
...innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often...of the outward creation and of the soul. It indeed pourtrays with terrible energy the excesses of the passions; but they are passions which show a mighty... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1835 - 724 pages
...innocent happiness, sympathies with suffering virtue, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immortal work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is... | |
 | Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollovvness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often...affections. It delights in the beauty and sublimity of outward nature and of the soul. It indeed portrays, with terrible energy, the excesses of the passions... | |
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... cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure 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 the world, passages true to our moral... 
