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... Means of Improving in Eloquence Comparative Merit of the Ancients and Moderns 199 Historical Writing • · 202 Philosophical Writing and Dialogue 206 • Epistolary Writing 208 Fictitious History 209 Nature of Poetry . Its Origin and ...
... Means of Improving in Eloquence Comparative Merit of the Ancients and Moderns 199 Historical Writing • · 202 Philosophical Writing and Dialogue 206 • Epistolary Writing 208 Fictitious History 209 Nature of Poetry . Its Origin and ...
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... mean , or even to the gay or trifling , changes the tone of the emo- tion . What is commonly called the sublime style , is for the most part a very bad one , and has no relation whatever to the true sublime . Writers are apt to imagine ...
... mean , or even to the gay or trifling , changes the tone of the emo- tion . What is commonly called the sublime style , is for the most part a very bad one , and has no relation whatever to the true sublime . Writers are apt to imagine ...
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... mean conception of it ; or by a weak , low , or puerile description of it . This betrays entire absence , or , at least , extreme poverty of genius . The bombast lies in forcing a common or trivial object out of its rank , and in ...
... mean conception of it ; or by a weak , low , or puerile description of it . This betrays entire absence , or , at least , extreme poverty of genius . The bombast lies in forcing a common or trivial object out of its rank , and in ...
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... mean- ders of a river . Cones and pyramids have their degree of beauty ; but trees , growing in their natural wildness , have infinitely more beauty , than when trimmed into pyramids and cones . The apartments of a house must be ...
... mean- ders of a river . Cones and pyramids have their degree of beauty ; but trees , growing in their natural wildness , have infinitely more beauty , than when trimmed into pyramids and cones . The apartments of a house must be ...
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... things , which we do not see . But , though in this they coincide , yet it should be remembered , that the terms themselves are not synonymous ; that they import different means of producing D3 Pleasures of Taste . 43.
... things , which we do not see . But , though in this they coincide , yet it should be remembered , that the terms themselves are not synonymous ; that they import different means of producing D3 Pleasures of Taste . 43.
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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?