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... beauty , yet reason , as I shall show hereafter , assists taste in many of its operations , and serves to enlarge its power . * Taste , in the sense in which I have explained it , is a faculty com- mon in some degree to all men ...
... beauty , yet reason , as I shall show hereafter , assists taste in many of its operations , and serves to enlarge its power . * Taste , in the sense in which I have explained it , is a faculty com- mon in some degree to all men ...
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... beauty of com- position and discourse , attention to the most approved models , study of the best authors , comparisons of lower and higher degrees of the same beauties , operate towards the refinement of taste . When one is only ...
... beauty of com- position and discourse , attention to the most approved models , study of the best authors , comparisons of lower and higher degrees of the same beauties , operate towards the refinement of taste . When one is only ...
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... beauty to be refined by fre- quent attention to the most beautiful objects , and at the same time to be guided and improved by the light of the understanding . I must be allowed to add , that as a sound head , so likewise a good heart ...
... beauty to be refined by fre- quent attention to the most beautiful objects , and at the same time to be guided and improved by the light of the understanding . I must be allowed to add , that as a sound head , so likewise a good heart ...
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... beauty which peculiarly suits their turn of mind ; and therefore no one has a title to condemn the rest . It is not in matters of taste , as in questions of mere reason , where there is but one conclusion that can be true , and all the ...
... beauty which peculiarly suits their turn of mind ; and therefore no one has a title to condemn the rest . It is not in matters of taste , as in questions of mere reason , where there is but one conclusion that can be true , and all the ...
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... beauty , which is natural to men , and which , in its application to particular objects , is capable of being guided and en- lightened by reason . Now were there any one person who possessed in full perfection all the powers of human ...
... beauty , which is natural to men , and which , in its application to particular objects , is capable of being guided and en- lightened by reason . Now were there any one person who possessed in full perfection all the powers of human ...
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Page 168 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 179 - How art thou fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Page 452 - Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 461 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 452 - 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 a gloom, 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.
Page 459 - 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 44 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, 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 40 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place: his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 459 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 217 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas, so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view, or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.