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... rules , how just soever , are sufficient to form an orator . Supposing natural genius to be favourable , more by a great deal will depend upon private application and study , than upon any system of instruction that is capable of being ...
... rules , how just soever , are sufficient to form an orator . Supposing natural genius to be favourable , more by a great deal will depend upon private application and study , than upon any system of instruction that is capable of being ...
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... rule cannot be at all applied ; and conformity to nature , is an expression frequently used , without any distinct or determinate meaning . We must therefore search for some- what that can be rendered more clear and precise , to be the ...
... rule cannot be at all applied ; and conformity to nature , is an expression frequently used , without any distinct or determinate meaning . We must therefore search for some- what that can be rendered more clear and precise , to be the ...
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... rules or conclusions concerning the several kinds of beauty in works of genius . The rules of criticism are not formed by any induction , à priori , as it is called ; that is , they are not formed by a train of abstract reasoning , in ...
... rules or conclusions concerning the several kinds of beauty in works of genius . The rules of criticism are not formed by any induction , à priori , as it is called ; that is , they are not formed by a train of abstract reasoning , in ...
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... rule , not by feeling ; which is so far from being true , that they who judge after this manner are pedants , not crit- ics . For all the rules of genuine criticism I have shewn to be ultimately founded on feeling ; and taste and ...
... rule , not by feeling ; which is so far from being true , that they who judge after this manner are pedants , not crit- ics . For all the rules of genuine criticism I have shewn to be ultimately founded on feeling ; and taste and ...
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... rule which I have been now giving , con- cerning the proper choice of circumstances , when description is meant to be sublime , seems to me not to have been sufficiently attended to . It has , however , such a foundation in nature , as ...
... rule which I have been now giving , con- cerning the proper choice of circumstances , when description is meant to be sublime , seems to me not to have been sufficiently attended to . It has , however , such a foundation in nature , as ...
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Page 422 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 418 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Page 423 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 121 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Page 206 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Page 157 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 43 - God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off...
Page 169 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, Lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
Page 418 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 168 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...