Browne, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it has been granted to open the trumpet-stop on that great organ of passion, oftentimes leaves behind it the sense of sadness which belongs to beautiful apparitions starting out of darkness upon the morbid eye, only... De Quincey's Writings: Biographical essays. 1870 - Page 188by Thomas De Quincey - 1870Full view - About this book
| American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...is gone. Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth ; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly...is fleeting. Even the mighty rhetoric of Sir Thomas Crown, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it has been granted to open the trumpet-stop on that great organ... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...is gone. Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth ; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly...is fleeting. Even the mighty rhetoric of Sir Thomas Brown, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it has been granted to open the trumpet-stop on that great organ... | |
| English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...is gone. Ehetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth ; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly...is fleeting. Even the mighty rhetoric of Sir Thomas Brown, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it has been granted to open the trumpet-stop on that great organ... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...is gone. Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth ; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly...both is fleeting. Even the mighty rhetoric of Sir Tbnmas Brown, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it has been granted to open the trumpet-stop on mat great... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 318 pages
...is gone. Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth ; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly...is fleeting. Even the mighty rhetoric of Sir Thomas Brown, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it has been granted to open the trumpet-stop on that great organ... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 306 pages
...is gone. Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth ; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly...is fleeting. Even the mighty rhetoric of Sir Thomas Brown, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it has been granted to open the trumpet-stop on that great organ... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 308 pages
...brilliancy is seen chiefly in separate splinterings of phrastf or image which throw upon the eye a virtreous scintillation for a moment, but spread no deep suffusions...is fleeting. Even the mighty rhetoric of Sir Thomas Brown, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it has been granted to open the trumpet-stop on that great organ... | |
| 1849 - 636 pages
...is gone. Rhetoric, accordingto its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to tlie permanencies of truth ; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly...is fleeting. Even the mighty rhetoric of Sir Thomas Brown, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it has been granted to open the trumpet-stop on that great organ... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1875 - 598 pages
...relations coherent; the main condition lies in the key of the evolution, in the law of the succession. Thi elements are nothing without the atmosphere that moulds,...organ of passion, oftentimes leaves behind it the tease of sadness which belongs to beautiful apparitions atarting out of darkness upon the morbid eye,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 430 pages
...is gone. Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth ; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly...Sir Thomas Browne, or Jeremy Taylor, to whom only it haa been granted to open the trumpet-stop on that great organ of passion, oftentimes leaves behind... | |
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