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... original , nor as a compilation from the writings of others . On every subject contained in them , he has thought for himself . He con- sulted his own ideas and reflections : and a great part of what will be found in these Lecturos is ...
... original , nor as a compilation from the writings of others . On every subject contained in them , he has thought for himself . He con- sulted his own ideas and reflections : and a great part of what will be found in these Lecturos is ...
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... original . In reading , for instance , such a poem as the Æneid , a great part of our pleasure arises from the plan or story being well conducted , and all the parts joined together with probability and due connexion ; from the ...
... original . In reading , for instance , such a poem as the Æneid , a great part of our pleasure arises from the plan or story being well conducted , and all the parts joined together with probability and due connexion ; from the ...
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... original . But there are innumerable cases in which this rule cannot be at all applied ; and conformity to nature , is an ex- pression frequently used , without any distinct or determinate mean- ing . We must therefore search for ...
... original . But there are innumerable cases in which this rule cannot be at all applied ; and conformity to nature , is an ex- pression frequently used , without any distinct or determinate mean- ing . We must therefore search for ...
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... original thoughts upon this subject , proposes a formal theory upon this foundation , that terror is the source of the sublime , and that no objects have this character , but such as produce impressions of pain and danger . It is indeed ...
... original thoughts upon this subject , proposes a formal theory upon this foundation , that terror is the source of the sublime , and that no objects have this character , but such as produce impressions of pain and danger . It is indeed ...
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... original , the hair of his head shaken , is the effect of his nod , and inakes a happy picturesque circumstance in the description . * The boldness , freedom , and variety of our blank verse , is infinite- ly more favourable than rhyme ...
... original , the hair of his head shaken , is the effect of his nod , and inakes a happy picturesque circumstance in the description . * The boldness , freedom , and variety of our blank verse , is infinite- ly more favourable than rhyme ...
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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.