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... advantage . In the language , even of the rudest and most uncultivated tribes of men , we can trace some attention to the grace and force of those expressions which they used , when they sought to persuade or to effect ; and among ...
... advantage . In the language , even of the rudest and most uncultivated tribes of men , we can trace some attention to the grace and force of those expressions which they used , when they sought to persuade or to effect ; and among ...
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... advantage . They cannot , it is true , inspire genius ; but they can direct and assist it . They cannot render barrenness fruitful ; but they may correct redundancy . They point out the proper models for imita- tion ; they bring into ...
... advantage . They cannot , it is true , inspire genius ; but they can direct and assist it . They cannot render barrenness fruitful ; but they may correct redundancy . They point out the proper models for imita- tion ; they bring into ...
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... advantage , of the descriptions of such objects ; or , of what is called the sublime in writing . The true sense of the sublime in composition is , undoubt- edly , such a description of objects , or exhibition of senti- ments , which ...
... advantage , of the descriptions of such objects ; or , of what is called the sublime in writing . The true sense of the sublime in composition is , undoubt- edly , such a description of objects , or exhibition of senti- ments , which ...
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... advantage writing and discourse pos- sess , that they encompass so large and fruitful a 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 ...
... advantage writing and discourse pos- sess , that they encompass so large and fruitful a 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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... advantages arising from such a structure of language . They were attentive only to clear- ness , and copiousness of ... advantage did the ancients derive from varying the terminations of nouns and verbs ? But when , and why , were these ...
... advantages arising from such a structure of language . They were attentive only to clear- ness , and copiousness of ... advantage did the ancients derive from varying the terminations of nouns and verbs ? But when , and why , were these ...
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Página 302 - I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered 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 a gloom, 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...
Página 305 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Página 305 - 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.
Página 32 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 103 - 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.
Página 301 - 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.
Página 170 - 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.
Página 308 - 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.
Página 125 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Página 101 - 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.