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... light and amusing . To this sort belong comedies , the painting of the Dutch school , & c . But there is another quite different sort , solemn and akin to re- ligion , to which belong the poetry of Milton and Dante , and the painting of ...
... light and amusing . To this sort belong comedies , the painting of the Dutch school , & c . But there is another quite different sort , solemn and akin to re- ligion , to which belong the poetry of Milton and Dante , and the painting of ...
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... light , and in order to set off or relieve light . Every work of Art is bad , however powerful , which leaves on the mind a predominant feeling of dis- satisfaction , or disgust , or horror . And yet it is very common to hear works of ...
... light , and in order to set off or relieve light . Every work of Art is bad , however powerful , which leaves on the mind a predominant feeling of dis- satisfaction , or disgust , or horror . And yet it is very common to hear works of ...
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... Ah ! here he is . You are now responsible for him , sir . " There crept into the light of the lamp which hung above the sentry's box a very handsome beardless youth , of possibly twenty . The face of him . was 22 Silcote of Silcotes .
... Ah ! here he is . You are now responsible for him , sir . " There crept into the light of the lamp which hung above the sentry's box a very handsome beardless youth , of possibly twenty . The face of him . was 22 Silcote of Silcotes .
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... light , and made matter of fulsome praise or sentimental display ? There is truth , no doubt , in these objections ; though we think they are often carried too far . The genuine records of human life and character will have an ...
... light , and made matter of fulsome praise or sentimental display ? There is truth , no doubt , in these objections ; though we think they are often carried too far . The genuine records of human life and character will have an ...
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... light on the events in which the men whose lives they relate took part . Such a light could not come from any account of those events which made the actors entirely subordinate to the action . And there are few men , perhaps , for whom ...
... light on the events in which the men whose lives they relate took part . Such a light could not come from any account of those events which made the actors entirely subordinate to the action . And there are few men , perhaps , for whom ...
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Page 231 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 225 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 388 - There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 207 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 450 - For a thousand years in thy sight, are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
Page 80 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 79 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 152 - The first line that Sir Patrick read, A loud laugh laughed he : The next line that Sir Patrick read, The tear blinded his e'e. 'O wha is this has done this deed, This ill deed done to me ; To send me out this time o' the year, To sail upon the sea?
Page 272 - ... a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Page 321 - Liberty" (to Sons of the Devil in overwhelming majority, as would appear) ; count of Heads the God-appointed way in this Universe, all other ways Devil-appointed; in one brief word, which includes whatever of palpable incredibility and delirious absurdity, universally believed, can be uttered or imagined on these points,