| Annie Callander Milligan - 1912 - 164 pages
...heart forlorn.' ' MUSIC is one of the great instruments for the refinement and exaltation of society. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a...depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its connection with what is pure and noble. Advantages both in regard to intellectual and physical education... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 798 pages
...irresistible." THE PURIFYING INFLUENCE OF POETRY. ' We believe that poetry, far from injuring soeiety, is one of the great instruments of its refinement...ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressing eares, and awakens the eonseiousness of its affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate... | |
| Popular educator - 1860 - 428 pages
...XIX. EXERCISES ON EXPEESSIVE TONE-omtimietl. POETRY. [Marked for Inflcetmu.] WB believe that poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments...of its refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind abuve ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressing cares, and awakens the consciousness of its... | |
| 1849 - 308 pages
...rainbow. POETRY. BY DR. CHANNING. Poetry, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressed cares, and awakens the consciousness of its efficacy with what is pure and noble. In its... | |
| 1899 - 418 pages
...ethics. POETRY. BY DR. CHANNIHri. POETRY, far from injuring society, is one of the great instruments of refinement and exaltation. It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a respite from depressed cares, and awakens the consciousness of its efficacy with what is pure and noble. In its... | |
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