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" Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus... "
Measures as well as men; or, The present and future interests of Great ... - Page 23
by Great Britain - 1806
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Lectures on the Atheistic Controversy: Delivered in the Months of February ...

Benjamin Godwin - Apologetics - 1834 - 314 pages
...the Graces ; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy. Look, then, abroad through nature, to the range...conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life, Volume 4

Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 368 pages
...lyric seems conceived in the same spirit with which Akenside records the fall of Julius Caesar : — " And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With...conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Cesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots; and his arm Aloft extending like eternal Jove, When guilt...
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The Works of Hannah More, Volume 2

Hannah More - English literature - 1836 - 452 pages
...next passage, however," said Sir John, " that I may be better able to controvert your criticism : — Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets,...as when Brutus rose, Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots, aud his arm Alofl extending like eternal Jove When guilt...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 pages
...and compared together in the following beautiful passage of Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination. Look then abroad through nature to the range Of planets,...conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Cffisar,s fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove, When guilt...
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Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric: Abridged. With Questions

Hugh Blair - English language - 1838 - 280 pages
...Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination. Look then abroad through nature to the range Of planets, sans, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling, unshaken, through...conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm What is the next class of sublime objects to...
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akinside: With His Life

Mark Akenside - 1838 - 352 pages
...361. Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene 490 With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong...as when BRUTUS rose* Refulgent from the stroke of CESAR'S fate, Amid the croud of patriots; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal JOVE 49$ When Guilt...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - English language - 1839 - 702 pages
...compared together, iu the following beautiful passage of Akenside'* Pleasures of the Imagination : Look then abroad through nature ; to the range Of...dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose High virtue is the most natural and fertile source of this moral sublimity. However, on some occasions,...
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A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles ...

Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1839 - 316 pages
...compared together, in the following beautiful passage of Akenside's Pleasures of the imagination : Look then abroad through nature ; to the range Of...that kindling majesty, dilate Thy strong conception, an when Brntas rose Retulgent, from the stroke of Cottar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots : and his...
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Sketches of moral and mental philosophy

Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1840 - 434 pages
...thou abroad through nature to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unbroken through the void immense ; And speak, O man, does...conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending like eternal Jove When guilt...
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Works, Complete, Volume 2

Hannah More - 1843 - 442 pages
...next passage, however," said Sir John, " that I may be better able to controvert your criticism : — Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets,...as when Brutus rose, Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots, and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When ffuilt...
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