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... tion ? Let his sentiments be considered as reflexions from his own mind ; let this piece on the Sublime be regarded as the picture of its author . It is a pity we have not a larger portrait of him ; but as that cannot be had , we must ...
... tion ? Let his sentiments be considered as reflexions from his own mind ; let this piece on the Sublime be regarded as the picture of its author . It is a pity we have not a larger portrait of him ; but as that cannot be had , we must ...
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... tion , gentle in its beginning , gradually dis- persed , increasing and getting to such a head , as to rage beyond resistance , and devour all things . His Sense is every where the very thing he would express , and the Sound of his ...
... tion , gentle in its beginning , gradually dis- persed , increasing and getting to such a head , as to rage beyond resistance , and devour all things . His Sense is every where the very thing he would express , and the Sound of his ...
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... tion of man , yet it is related in a manner not inconsistent with the majesty of God . To contend , as some do , that he never read Moses , is trifling , or rather litigious . The Greek trans- lation had been dispersed throughout the Ro ...
... tion of man , yet it is related in a manner not inconsistent with the majesty of God . To contend , as some do , that he never read Moses , is trifling , or rather litigious . The Greek trans- lation had been dispersed throughout the Ro ...
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... tion . He has a high and masculine turn of thought , unknown to any other writer , which inforced him to give all possible strength and energy to his words , that his language might be properly adjusted to his sense , and the sub ...
... tion . He has a high and masculine turn of thought , unknown to any other writer , which inforced him to give all possible strength and energy to his words , that his language might be properly adjusted to his sense , and the sub ...
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... tion , may perhaps be more liable to debate . Longinus is clear on the affirmative side . He speaks feelingly , but with caution about it , because tyranny and oppression were trium- phant at the time he wrote . He avers , with a spirit ...
... tion , may perhaps be more liable to debate . Longinus is clear on the affirmative side . He speaks feelingly , but with caution about it , because tyranny and oppression were trium- phant at the time he wrote . He avers , with a spirit ...
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Page 127 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 40 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 96 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 67 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold...
Page 92 - I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 114 - He spake ; and, to confirm his words, out flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
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Page 167 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 138 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 90 - These see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. For He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.