The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... figure , had retired to employ those talents in the investiga- tion of truth . Philosophy began to congratulate herself upon such a proselyte from the world of business , and hoped to have extended her power under the auspices of such a ...
... figure , had retired to employ those talents in the investiga- tion of truth . Philosophy began to congratulate herself upon such a proselyte from the world of business , and hoped to have extended her power under the auspices of such a ...
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... figure in history , that I am very sorry to say , it affords me but little matter on which to expatiate . The good offices done by one nation to its neighbour * ; the support given in publick distress ; the relief afforded in general ...
... figure in history , that I am very sorry to say , it affords me but little matter on which to expatiate . The good offices done by one nation to its neighbour * ; the support given in publick distress ; the relief afforded in general ...
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... figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made im- mense and rapid conquests , which doubtless were not compassed without the usual carnage . We see an army of ...
... figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of Ninus , but that he made im- mense and rapid conquests , which doubtless were not compassed without the usual carnage . We see an army of ...
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... figure . What he admired at different times in these so different figures , is strictly the same ; and though his knowledge is improved , his taste is not altered . Hitherto his mistake was from a want of knowledge in art , and this ...
... figure . What he admired at different times in these so different figures , is strictly the same ; and though his knowledge is improved , his taste is not altered . Hitherto his mistake was from a want of knowledge in art , and this ...
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... figures , and which the painter , who had not made such accu- rate observations on shoes , and was content with a ... figure . Here the anatomist observes what the painter had not observed ; and he passes by what the shoemaker had ...
... figures , and which the painter , who had not made such accu- rate observations on shoes , and was content with a ... figure . Here the anatomist observes what the painter had not observed ; and he passes by what the shoemaker had ...
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Page 161 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 248 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 187 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 166 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 141 - IT is by the first of these passions that we enter into the concerns of others; that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost any thing which men can do or suffer.
Page 158 - No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror, be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on any thing as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous.
Page 165 - 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 174 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Page 171 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free ? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass ? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 317 - This idea or this affection caused by a word, which nothing but a word could annex to the others, raises a very great degree of the sublime ; and this sublime is raised yet .higher by what follows, a "universe of Death.