Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of LiteratureJ. Raw, 1810 - 241 Seiten |
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... sentiments are enforced , are generally just , and some- times original and happy . - His strained comparison , however , ( C. 3 ) , between the disciples of Plato and of Wesley , I either do not comprehend , or do not feel . — In the ...
... sentiments are enforced , are generally just , and some- times original and happy . - His strained comparison , however , ( C. 3 ) , between the disciples of Plato and of Wesley , I either do not comprehend , or do not feel . — In the ...
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... on the subject . He has here pursued his original sentiments on these principles , with no abatement of his original vigour . In his cordial detestation of them , I heartily [ 1796. ] conspire ; but by what measures does 15.
... on the subject . He has here pursued his original sentiments on these principles , with no abatement of his original vigour . In his cordial detestation of them , I heartily [ 1796. ] conspire ; but by what measures does 15.
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... but , had I done so , I should have grieved at seeing , in the rival version , many sentiments and images which I had neglected to transplant ; and I should have shrunk into myself , when - [ 1796. ] " Full at the portal's massy gate 16.
... but , had I done so , I should have grieved at seeing , in the rival version , many sentiments and images which I had neglected to transplant ; and I should have shrunk into myself , when - [ 1796. ] " Full at the portal's massy gate 16.
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... sentiments , he fully acknowledged the integrity of Burke's prin- ciples , and the transcendant energies of his mind , which still worked with so much D [ 1796. ] vigour under the most overwhelming depression . 17 Lord C. called in. He ...
... sentiments , he fully acknowledged the integrity of Burke's prin- ciples , and the transcendant energies of his mind , which still worked with so much D [ 1796. ] vigour under the most overwhelming depression . 17 Lord C. called in. He ...
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... sentiments . B. makes the sublime turn , indeed , on pain and danger , which , when near , overpower and oppress ; but on pain and danger removed ; in which case , the mind , arrogating to itself some portion of the importance which ...
... sentiments . B. makes the sublime turn , indeed , on pain and danger , which , when near , overpower and oppress ; but on pain and danger removed ; in which case , the mind , arrogating to itself some portion of the importance which ...
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Seite 236 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years.
Seite 229 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Seite 114 - ... if commerce and the arts should be lost in an experiment to try how well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter?
Seite 103 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Seite 68 - Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little system, created to perform, as well as to connect together, in reality, those different movements and effects which the artist has occasion for. A system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed.
Seite 237 - With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom all commend.
Seite 9 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
Seite 123 - Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King to be pulled down first; and men and women, one and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left.
Seite 237 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.