 | 1826 - 548 pages
...power, splendour, 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 beeu made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions... | |
 | 1827 - 634 pages
...which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of tne great instruments of its refinement and exaltation....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 - 1828 - 60 pages
...power, splendour, 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... | |
 | 1828 - 562 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 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. Ti'ue, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 622 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 ordinary Hfe, gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its affinity with what... | |
 | 1832 - 478 pages
...power, splendour, 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... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 pages
...happiness, for which it was created. We accordingly believe that poetry, far from injuring socie11* ty, is one of the great instruments of its refinement...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,... | |
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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... 
