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... expression , but barren or erroneous in sentiment . Oratory , it is true , has often been dis- graced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Writers have endeavoured to supply want of mat- ter by graces of composition ...
... expression , but barren or erroneous in sentiment . Oratory , it is true , has often been dis- graced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Writers have endeavoured to supply want of mat- ter by graces of composition ...
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... expression . It will easily appear , why a defect either in conciseness or simplicity is peculiarly hurtful to the sublime . The emotion , excited in the mind by some great or noble object , raises it considerably above its common pitch ...
... expression . It will easily appear , why a defect either in conciseness or simplicity is peculiarly hurtful to the sublime . The emotion , excited in the mind by some great or noble object , raises it considerably above its common pitch ...
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... expression , by rising above what is customary or vulgar , constitutes the sublime ; yet nothing is in reality more false . In genuine instances of sublime writing , nothing of this kind appears . " God said , let there be light ; and ...
... expression , by rising above what is customary or vulgar , constitutes the sublime ; yet nothing is in reality more false . In genuine instances of sublime writing , nothing of this kind appears . " God said , let there be light ; and ...
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... expression , which it conveys , of the qualities of the mind ; of good sense , of good humour ; of candour , benevo- lence , sensibility , or other amiable dispositions . It may be observed , that there are certain qualities of the mind ...
... expression , which it conveys , of the qualities of the mind ; of good sense , of good humour ; of candour , benevo- lence , sensibility , or other amiable dispositions . It may be observed , that there are certain qualities of the mind ...
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... expression . Interjections , it has been shown , or passion- ate exclamations , were the elements of speech . Men laboured to communicate their feelings to each other by those expressive cries and ges- tures , which nature taught them ...
... expression . Interjections , it has been shown , or passion- ate exclamations , were the elements of speech . Men laboured to communicate their feelings to each other by those expressive cries and ges- tures , which nature taught them ...
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Page 232 - Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 106 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 228 - Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 31 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 134 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Page 230 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 233 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Page 116 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 229 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way?