 ... exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it...  Essay on Language, and Other Essays and Addresses - Page 246by Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...evanescent joys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical science,... | |
 | 1828 - 592 pages
...evanescent joys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,...indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of t higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness is more and more needed... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...evanescent joys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical science,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 pages
...but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical science,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 622 pages
...but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; lor it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical science,... | |
 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 pages
...them from the thraldom of this earthborn prudence. It is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications,...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being." This refinement pervaded his whole character, gave a charm to his domestic habits and social pleasures,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 pages
...but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,...encroachments of heartless and artificial manners, which make civilisation so tame and uninteresting. It is needed to counteract the tendency of physical science,... | |
 | 1836 - 332 pages
...evanescent joys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications,...sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. CHANNINO. SECOND APPROACH OF CORTES TO THE CITY OF MEXICO. PASSING the night in a little hamlet on... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...evanescent joys : and in this he does well, for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications,...indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views of life and happiness, is more and more needed... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 444 pages
...evanescent joys. And in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications,...but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely edargsd, sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being. This power of poetry to refine our views... | |
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