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... variety of subjects ; every branch of science should be fendered as concise as possible Hence the at- tention is not fatigued , nor the memory over- loaded That a knowledge of Rhetoric forms a very material part of the education of a ...
... variety of subjects ; every branch of science should be fendered as concise as possible Hence the at- tention is not fatigued , nor the memory over- loaded That a knowledge of Rhetoric forms a very material part of the education of a ...
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... variety of others , are the foundation of the beauty , which we discern in them ; but , when we endeavour to go a step beyond this , and inquire , why regularity and variety produce in our minds the sensation of beauty ; any reason , we ...
... variety of others , are the foundation of the beauty , which we discern in them ; but , when we endeavour to go a step beyond this , and inquire , why regularity and variety produce in our minds the sensation of beauty ; any reason , we ...
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... variety of our blank verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to all kinds of sublime poetry . The ful- lest proof of this is afforded by Milton ; an au- thor , whose genius led him peculiarly to the sub- lime . The first and ...
... variety of our blank verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to all kinds of sublime poetry . The ful- lest proof of this is afforded by Milton ; an au- thor , whose genius led him peculiarly to the sub- lime . The first and ...
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... variety with an apparent neglect of regularity . Cabinets , doors , and windows are made after a regular form , in cubes and parallelograms , with exact proportion of parts ; and thus formed they please the eye , for this just reason ...
... variety with an apparent neglect of regularity . Cabinets , doors , and windows are made after a regular form , in cubes and parallelograms , with exact proportion of parts ; and thus formed they please the eye , for this just reason ...
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... variety of objects ; fields in verdure , scattered trees and flowers , running water , and animals graz- ing . If to these be added some of the pro- ductions of art , suitable to such a scene ; as , a bridge with arches over a river ...
... variety of objects ; fields in verdure , scattered trees and flowers , running water , and animals graz- ing . If to these be added some of the pro- ductions of art , suitable to such a scene ; as , a bridge with arches over a river ...
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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?