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... pleasure be the principal aim in view ; we are prompted by the strongest motives , to study how we may communicate our thoughts to the best advantage . In the language , even of the rudest and most uncultivated tribes of men , we can ...
... pleasure be the principal aim in view ; we are prompted by the strongest motives , to study how we may communicate our thoughts to the best advantage . In the language , even of the rudest and most uncultivated tribes of men , we can ...
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... pleasures of taste occupy a middle station between the pleasures of sense and those of pure intellect . To be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence , poetry , or any of the fine arts , is justly considered an unpromising symptom in ...
... pleasures of taste occupy a middle station between the pleasures of sense and those of pure intellect . To be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence , poetry , or any of the fine arts , is justly considered an unpromising symptom in ...
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... pleasure from the beauties of nature and of art . " The first question that occurs concerning it is , whether it is an internal sense , or an exertion of reason ? Reason is a very general term ; but if we understand by it that power of ...
... pleasure from the beauties of nature and of art . " The first question that occurs concerning it is , whether it is an internal sense , or an exertion of reason ? Reason is a very general term ; but if we understand by it that power of ...
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... pleasures of taste , there is a more remarkable inequality among men , than is usually found in point of common sense , reason , and judg- ment . This inequality is , doubtless , to be ascribed , in part , to the different frames of ...
... pleasures of taste , there is a more remarkable inequality among men , than is usually found in point of common sense , reason , and judg- ment . This inequality is , doubtless , to be ascribed , in part , to the different frames of ...
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... pleasure ; teaches us to relish finer melody , and by degrees enables us to enter into the intricate and com- pounded pleasures of harmony . So an eye for the beauties of painting , is never at once acquired . It is gradually formed by ...
... pleasure ; teaches us to relish finer melody , and by degrees enables us to enter into the intricate and com- pounded pleasures of harmony . So an eye for the beauties of painting , is never at once acquired . It is gradually formed by ...
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Page 298 - 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 ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear...
Page 301 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 301 - 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 297 - Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd shore, 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...
Page 101 - 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 297 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Page 126 - 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 168 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.
Page 304 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, 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 99 - And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power, in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole creation.