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... actions , and manners of men . The pleasure which we receive from such imitations , as representations , is founded on mere taste but to judge whether they be properly executed , belongs to the understanding , which compares the copy ...
... actions , and manners of men . The pleasure which we receive from such imitations , as representations , is founded on mere taste but to judge whether they be properly executed , belongs to the understanding , which compares the copy ...
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... action in dramatic and epic compo- sitions , were not rules first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were drawn from the practice of Homer and Sophocles : they were founded upon observing the ...
... action in dramatic and epic compo- sitions , were not rules first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were drawn from the practice of Homer and Sophocles : they were founded upon observing the ...
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... actions of our fellow - creatures . These will be found chiefly of that class , which comes under the name of magnanimity or heroism : and they produce an effect extremely similar to what is produced by the view of grand objects in ...
... actions of our fellow - creatures . These will be found chiefly of that class , which comes under the name of magnanimity or heroism : and they produce an effect extremely similar to what is produced by the view of grand objects in ...
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... action . Though color , figure , and motion , are separate princi- ples of beauty ; yet in many beautiful objects they all meet , and render the beauty both greater and more complex . Thus , in flowers , trees , and animals , we are ...
... action . Though color , figure , and motion , are separate princi- ples of beauty ; yet in many beautiful objects they all meet , and render the beauty both greater and more complex . Thus , in flowers , trees , and animals , we are ...
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... actions , always raise in us a feeling similar to that of beauty . There are two great classes of moral qualities ; one is of the high and the grave virtues , which require extraordinary efforts , and turn upon dangers and sufferings ...
... actions , always raise in us a feeling similar to that of beauty . There are two great classes of moral qualities ; one is of the high and the grave virtues , which require extraordinary efforts , and turn upon dangers and sufferings ...
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Page 298 - 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 ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear...
Page 301 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 301 - 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 297 - Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd shore, 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...
Page 101 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 297 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Page 126 - 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 168 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.
Page 304 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, 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 99 - And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power, in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole creation.