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... remarkable example of this beauty may be taken from two passages in Milton's Par- adise Lost ; in one of which he describes the sound , made by the opening of the gates of hell ; in the other , that made by the opening of the gates of ...
... remarkable example of this beauty may be taken from two passages in Milton's Par- adise Lost ; in one of which he describes the sound , made by the opening of the gates of hell ; in the other , that made by the opening of the gates of ...
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... , who has a lively fancy , every thing is animated . Homer , the father of poetry , is remarkable for the use of this figure . War , peace , darts , rivers , every thing in short , is alive in his writings . 100 Personification .
... , who has a lively fancy , every thing is animated . Homer , the father of poetry , is remarkable for the use of this figure . War , peace , darts , rivers , every thing in short , is alive in his writings . 100 Personification .
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... remarkable examples . Of a beautiful and magnificent diffuseness , Cice- ro is undoubtedly the noblest instance which can be given . Addison also and Sir William Temple may be ranked in the same class . In determining when to adopt the ...
... remarkable examples . Of a beautiful and magnificent diffuseness , Cice- ro is undoubtedly the noblest instance which can be given . Addison also and Sir William Temple may be ranked in the same class . In determining when to adopt the ...
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... remarkable example in Lord Shaftsbury . Though an author of considerable merit , he expresses nothing with simplicity . He seems to have thought it vulgar and beneath the dignity of a man of quality to speak like other men . Hence he is ...
... remarkable example in Lord Shaftsbury . Though an author of considerable merit , he expresses nothing with simplicity . He seems to have thought it vulgar and beneath the dignity of a man of quality to speak like other men . Hence he is ...
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... remarkable appearances of elo- quence , as the art of persuasion ; and these gave it such a field , as it never had before , and per- haps has never had again since that time . Greece was divided into many little states . These were ...
... remarkable appearances of elo- quence , as the art of persuasion ; and these gave it such a field , as it never had before , and per- haps has never had again since that time . Greece was divided into many little states . These were ...
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Page 272 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Page 201 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 27 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
Page 24 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 214 - 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, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 24 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 101 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 21 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense...
Page 98 - 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 125 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.