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... peculiar exertions . The nature of taste , the nature and importance of criticism , and the distinction between taste and genius , being thus explained ; the sources of the pleasures of taste shall next be considered . Here a very ...
... peculiar exertions . The nature of taste , the nature and importance of criticism , and the distinction between taste and genius , being thus explained ; the sources of the pleasures of taste shall next be considered . Here a very ...
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... state of society , were peculiarly favourable to the emotions of sublimity . The genius of men was then very prone to admiration and astonishment . Meeting continually new 24 Sublimity in Writing . Sublimity in Writing ·
... state of society , were peculiarly favourable to the emotions of sublimity . The genius of men was then very prone to admiration and astonishment . Meeting continually new 24 Sublimity in Writing . Sublimity in Writing ·
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... peculiarly to the sublime . The first and second books of Paradise Lost are continued examples of it . Take , for instance , the following noted description of Satan , after his fall , appearing at the head of his infernal hosts . -He ...
... peculiarly to the sublime . The first and second books of Paradise Lost are continued examples of it . Take , for instance , the following noted description of Satan , after his fall , appearing at the head of his infernal hosts . -He ...
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... peculiar advan- tage writing and discourse possess ; they encompass a arge and fruitful field on all sides , and have power to exhibit in great perfection , not a single set of objects only , but almost the whole of those which give ...
... peculiar advan- tage writing and discourse possess ; they encompass a arge and fruitful field on all sides , and have power to exhibit in great perfection , not a single set of objects only , but almost the whole of those which give ...
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... peculiar manner in which a man ex- presses his thoughts by words . It is a picture of the ideas in his mind , and of the order in which they there exist . The qualities of a good style may be ranged under two heads , perspicuity and ...
... peculiar manner in which a man ex- presses his thoughts by words . It is a picture of the ideas in his mind , and of the order in which they there exist . The qualities of a good style may be ranged under two heads , perspicuity and ...
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Page 111 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
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 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 25 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 151 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 90 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 25 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 110 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
Page 186 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 115 - A man should endeavour, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide as possible, that he may retire into them with safety, and find in them such a satisfaction as a wise man would not blush to take.