 ... that it is an incentive to philanthropy. There is a certain poetic ground on which a man cannot tread without feelings that enlarge the heart ; the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes; and many who are not...  Wales: And Other Poems - Страница 28по Maria James - 1839 - 170 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1800 - 188 страници
...enlarge the heart : the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes, and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by the air of the climate." " I have always thought so," replied... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 страници
...Mackenzie, in one of his youthful letters,* ' let the prudence of the world say what it will, is, at least, one of the noblest amusements. Our philanthropy is...near as to be bettered by the air of the climate.' Cultivation destroys wild flowers as civilization destroys wild animals. The greater number of those... | |
 | Charles Gray - 1811 - 198 страници
...enlarge the heart: the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes, and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by the air of the climate." If this be a just sentiment, what heart... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1820 - 326 страници
...enlarge the heart : the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes, and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by the air of the climate." " I have always thought so," replied... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1820 - 294 страници
...enlarge the heart ; the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes; and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by, the air of the climate. I have always thought so, replied Harley... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 страници
...enlarge the heart: the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes, and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by the air of the climate." " I have always thought so," replied... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 страници
...Mackenzie, in one of his youthful letters,* ' let the prudence of the world say what it will, is, at least, one of the noblest amusements. Our philanthropy is...near as to be bettered by the air of the climate.' Cultivation destroys wild flowers as civilization destroys wild animals. The greater number of those... | |
 | Robert Farmer (of Ealing.) - 1847 - 136 страници
...that enlarge the heart : the causes of human depravity vanish before the enthusiasm he professes ; and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by the air of the climate."— MACKENZIE. LONDON SAUNDERS AND OTLEY,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 страници
...feelings that enlarge the heart. The causes of human depravity vanish before the enthusiasm he professes; nd a number of the like: approach so near as to be buttered by the air of the climate." This appears to have been the case with... | |
 | James Caughey - 1857 - 444 страници
...the sentiment of Mackenzie: " Poetry, let the prudence of the world say what it will, is, at least, one of the noblest amusements. Our philanthropy is...near as to be bettered by the air of the climate." Well, what a preface is here ! sufficient, in fact, to herald an entire volume of a Laureat. Scenery... | |
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