Continuation of the RamblerF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 - Authors, English |
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... sound to sense , often chimerical • 93. The prejudices and caprices of criticism 94 An inquiry how far Milton has accommodated the sound to the sense · 95. The history of Pertinax the sceptick 96. Truth , falsehood , and fiction , an ...
... sound to sense , often chimerical • 93. The prejudices and caprices of criticism 94 An inquiry how far Milton has accommodated the sound to the sense · 95. The history of Pertinax the sceptick 96. Truth , falsehood , and fiction , an ...
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... sounds , but do not understand them . Of this kind is the well - known and well - attested position , that life is short , which may be heard among mankind by an attentive auditor , many times a day , but which never yet within my reach ...
... sounds , but do not understand them . Of this kind is the well - known and well - attested position , that life is short , which may be heard among mankind by an attentive auditor , many times a day , but which never yet within my reach ...
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... sound infused into the ear . But our ideas are more subjected to choice ; we can call them before us , and command their stay , we can facilitate and promote their recurrence , we can either repress their intrusion , or hasten their ...
... sound infused into the ear . But our ideas are more subjected to choice ; we can call them before us , and command their stay , we can facilitate and promote their recurrence , we can either repress their intrusion , or hasten their ...
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... sounds , and more affected by the same words in one order than in another . The perception of harmony is indeed conferred upon men in degrees very unequal , but there are none who do not perceive it , or ... sound to sense, often chimerical.
... sounds , and more affected by the same words in one order than in another . The perception of harmony is indeed conferred upon men in degrees very unequal , but there are none who do not perceive it , or ... sound to sense, often chimerical.
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... sound or percussion at equal times , is the most complete harmony of which a single verse is capable , and should ... sounds untransposed in a long composition , is not only very difficult , but tiresome and disgusting ; for we are soon ...
... sound or percussion at equal times , is the most complete harmony of which a single verse is capable , and should ... sounds untransposed in a long composition , is not only very difficult , but tiresome and disgusting ; for we are soon ...
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Page 136 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 145 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 441 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 233 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Page 95 - Ordain'd by thee; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast...
Page 94 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 411 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 149 - Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart, Made to destroy. I fled, and cried out, Death ! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death...
Page 60 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 105 - ... inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub...