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... persons , not unfrequently to be met , who have an excellent taste in several of the polite arts ; such , as music , poetry , painting , and eloquence ; but an excellent performer in all these arts is very seldom found ; or rather is ...
... persons , not unfrequently to be met , who have an excellent taste in several of the polite arts ; such , as music , poetry , painting , and eloquence ; but an excellent performer in all these arts is very seldom found ; or rather is ...
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... persons are highly interested in this remark ; since it may teach them to ex- amine with care , and to pursue with ardour , that path , which nature has marked out for their culiar exertions . pe- The nature of taste , the nature and ...
... persons are highly interested in this remark ; since it may teach them to ex- amine with care , and to pursue with ardour , that path , which nature has marked out for their culiar exertions . pe- The nature of taste , the nature and ...
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... person , degrades the majesty of the descrip- tion . The debasing effect of this idea will ap- pear in a stronger light , from observing what fig- ure it makes in a poem of Sir Richard Black- more ; who , though an extravagant ...
... person , degrades the majesty of the descrip- tion . The debasing effect of this idea will ap- pear in a stronger light , from observing what fig- ure it makes in a poem of Sir Richard Black- more ; who , though an extravagant ...
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... person's taste is directed , from some writer or other he has it always in his power to receive the gratification of it . It has been usual among critical writers to treat of discourse , as the chief of all the imita- tive arts . They ...
... person's taste is directed , from some writer or other he has it always in his power to receive the gratification of it . It has been usual among critical writers to treat of discourse , as the chief of all the imita- tive arts . They ...
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... person or thing , which speaks or acts ; next , its action ; and lastly , the object of its action . Thus an English writer , paying a compliment to a great man , would say , " It is impossible for me to pass over in silence so ...
... person or thing , which speaks or acts ; next , its action ; and lastly , the object of its action . Thus an English writer , paying a compliment to a great man , would say , " It is impossible for me to pass over in silence so ...
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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?