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... strength , are attainments of the utmost consequence to all who purpose , either by speech or writing , to address the public ; for , without being master of these attainments , no man can do justice to his own conceptions . And so far ...
... strength , are attainments of the utmost consequence to all who purpose , either by speech or writing , to address the public ; for , without being master of these attainments , no man can do justice to his own conceptions . And so far ...
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... strength and force , either enter not directly , or with which they are not inti- mately connected , in conducting our thoughts to some astonishing power , as concerned in the production of the object . What is Mr. Burke's theory ; and ...
... strength and force , either enter not directly , or with which they are not inti- mately connected , in conducting our thoughts to some astonishing power , as concerned in the production of the object . What is Mr. Burke's theory ; and ...
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... strength , with conciseness , and simplicity . This depends , chiefly , upon the lively impression which the poet , or orator , has of the subject which he exhibits ; and upon his being deeply affected , and warmed , by the sublime idea ...
... strength , with conciseness , and simplicity . This depends , chiefly , upon the lively impression which the poet , or orator , has of the subject which he exhibits ; and upon his being deeply affected , and warmed , by the sublime idea ...
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... strength or sublimity . Of all writings , ancient or modern , the Sacred Scriptures afford us the highest instances of the sublime . The descrip- tions of the Deity , in them , are wonderfully noble - both from the grandeur of the ...
... strength or sublimity . Of all writings , ancient or modern , the Sacred Scriptures afford us the highest instances of the sublime . The descrip- tions of the Deity , in them , are wonderfully noble - both from the grandeur of the ...
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... strength of the feeling is emasculated ; the beautiful may remain , but the sublime is gone . Homer's description of the nod of Jupiter , as shaking the heavens , has been admired in all ages , as highly sublime . Literally translated ...
... strength of the feeling is emasculated ; the beautiful may remain , but the sublime is gone . Homer's description of the nod of Jupiter , as shaking the heavens , has been admired in all ages , as highly sublime . Literally translated ...
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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.