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... ment , to direct attention more towards substance than show , to re- commend good sense as the foundation of all good composition , and simplicity as essential to all true ornament . When entering on this subject , I may be allowed , on ...
... ment , to direct attention more towards substance than show , to re- commend good sense as the foundation of all good composition , and simplicity as essential to all true ornament . When entering on this subject , I may be allowed , on ...
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... ment for his leisure hours , to save him from the danger of many a pernicious passion . He is not in hazard of being a burden to him- self . He is not obliged to fly to low company , or to court the riot of loose pleasures , in order to ...
... ment for his leisure hours , to save him from the danger of many a pernicious passion . He is not in hazard of being a burden to him- self . He is not obliged to fly to low company , or to court the riot of loose pleasures , in order to ...
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... ment to such a course of study as we are now proposing to pursue . Of the truth of this assertion we may easily be convinced , by only reflecting on that immense superiority which education and improve- ment give to civilized , above ...
... ment to such a course of study as we are now proposing to pursue . Of the truth of this assertion we may easily be convinced , by only reflecting on that immense superiority which education and improve- ment give to civilized , above ...
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... ment which attends them is obscure and confused . He cannot point out the several excellencies or blemishes of a performance which he peruses ; he is at a loss on what to rest his judgment : all that can he expected is , that he should ...
... ment which attends them is obscure and confused . He cannot point out the several excellencies or blemishes of a performance which he peruses ; he is at a loss on what to rest his judgment : all that can he expected is , that he should ...
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... ment ? Of what is it the result in its cluded from the exertions of taste ? perfect state ; and what does it sup- Though taste is ultimately founded on pose ? What remark is added ? Of a certain natural sensibility to beauty , moral ...
... ment ? Of what is it the result in its cluded from the exertions of taste ? perfect state ; and what does it sup- Though taste is ultimately founded on pose ? What remark is added ? Of a certain natural sensibility to beauty , moral ...
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Page 166 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 459 - 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 179 - Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof ; that opened not the house of his prisoners...
Page 462 - Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Page 464 - 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 40 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 459 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 428 - 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 221 - 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 216 - 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. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...