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... pleasing hopes may be entertain- ed . On the contrary , entire insensibility to elo- quence , poetry , or any of the fine arts , may justly be considered as a bad symptom in youth ; and supposes them inclined to low gratifications , or ...
... pleasing hopes may be entertain- ed . On the contrary , entire insensibility to elo- quence , poetry , or any of the fine arts , may justly be considered as a bad symptom in youth ; and supposes them inclined to low gratifications , or ...
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... pleasing while it lasts ; but the mind is tending every moment to sink into its ordinary state . When an author has brought us , or is endeavouring to bring us into this state , if he multiply words unnecessarily ; if he deck the sub ...
... pleasing while it lasts ; but the mind is tending every moment to sink into its ordinary state . When an author has brought us , or is endeavouring to bring us into this state , if he multiply words unnecessarily ; if he deck the sub ...
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... pleasing se- renity . Sublimity excites a feeling too violent to be lasting ; the pleasure proceeding from beauty , admits longer duration . It extends also to a much greater variety of objects than sublimity ; to a variety indeed so ...
... pleasing se- renity . Sublimity excites a feeling too violent to be lasting ; the pleasure proceeding from beauty , admits longer duration . It extends also to a much greater variety of objects than sublimity ; to a variety indeed so ...
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... pleasing ; and bodies in motion are , " cæteris paribus , " universally prefer- red to those at rest . Only gentle motion , however , belongs to the beautiful ; for , when it is swift , or very powerful , such as that of a torrent , it ...
... pleasing ; and bodies in motion are , " cæteris paribus , " universally prefer- red to those at rest . Only gentle motion , however , belongs to the beautiful ; for , when it is swift , or very powerful , such as that of a torrent , it ...
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... pleasing than motion downward . The easy , curling motion of flame and smoke is an object sin- gularly agreeable . Hogarth observes very ingeni- ously , that all the common and necessary motions for the business of life , are performed ...
... pleasing than motion downward . The easy , curling motion of flame and smoke is an object sin- gularly agreeable . Hogarth observes very ingeni- ously , that all the common and necessary motions for the business of life , are performed ...
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Page 187 - 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 173 - 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 28 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 88 - 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 25 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 22 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 186 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 74 - 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 187 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 25 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.