The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 3F. and C. Rivington, 1815 - English literature |
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... taste , but for the in- : formation of all ranks in society , an ornamented style would be ridiculous . The object of the author is to convince the agricul- turists and manufacturers , that their interests are so closely united , that ...
... taste , but for the in- : formation of all ranks in society , an ornamented style would be ridiculous . The object of the author is to convince the agricul- turists and manufacturers , that their interests are so closely united , that ...
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... taste ought in some measure to be complied with , it is surely very possible to unite elegance with a natural manner , and to give a polished sermon with regular divisions . Indeed weekly experience proves in sundry cases that clear ...
... taste ought in some measure to be complied with , it is surely very possible to unite elegance with a natural manner , and to give a polished sermon with regular divisions . Indeed weekly experience proves in sundry cases that clear ...
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... Taste , know the thorough elegance of its author's mind , and the habitual gracefulness and magnificence wherewith he dresses his conceptions . It is not a holiday garb , worn in the pulpit only . All his speculations and expressions ...
... Taste , know the thorough elegance of its author's mind , and the habitual gracefulness and magnificence wherewith he dresses his conceptions . It is not a holiday garb , worn in the pulpit only . All his speculations and expressions ...
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... zealously inculcates the duty of mixing piety with the observation of nature , and the workings of the imagina tion . This was no more than might be expected from the au- thor thor of the Essays on Taste : from one who 68 Alison's Sermons .
... zealously inculcates the duty of mixing piety with the observation of nature , and the workings of the imagina tion . This was no more than might be expected from the au- thor thor of the Essays on Taste : from one who 68 Alison's Sermons .
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... taste and of edification of taste , because at second - hand its smoothness would soon become monotony , its even march as- sume the appearance of stiffness and parade , and for its rich and . affecting imagery we should have the ...
... taste and of edification of taste , because at second - hand its smoothness would soon become monotony , its even march as- sume the appearance of stiffness and parade , and for its rich and . affecting imagery we should have the ...
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Page 605 - It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark, and darkly pure, Which follows the decline of day, As twilight melts beneath the moon away.
Page 340 - God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness : because that which may be known of God is manifest in them ; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead : so that they are without excuse.
Page 141 - Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 141 - Merrily, merrily, goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round.
Page 342 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 451 - Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 450 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists, one only ; — an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power, Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to Good.
Page 338 - Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; And were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 143 - STRANGER ! if e'er thine ardent step hath traced The northern realms of ancient Caledon, Where the proud Queen of Wilderness hath placed, By lake and cataract, her lonely throne ; Sublime but sad delight thy soul hath known, Gazing on pathless glen and mountain high, Listing where from the cliffs the torrents thrown Mingle their echoes with the eagle's cry, And with the sounding lake, and with the moaning sky.
Page 628 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.