Poetry Operates By Raising Our Curiosity, Engaging

Taste Depends Upon Those Finer Emotions Which Make The Organization Of The Soul.

Words Should Be Employed As The Means, Not The End; Language Is The Instrument, Conviction Is The Work.

Nothing Is Denied To Well-directed Labor.

From A Slight, Undetermined Drawing, Where The Ideas Of The Composition And Character Are Just Touched Upon, The Imagination Supplies More Than The Painter Himself, Probably, Could Produce. And We Accordingly Often Find That The Finished Work Disappoints The Expectation That Was Raised From The Sketch.

The Young Mind Is Pliable And Imitates, But In More Advanced States Grows Rigid And Must Be Warmed And Softened Before It Will Receive A Deep Impression.