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Page 47
... taste of their predecessors have betrayed them : They may , moreover , convey a great deal of instruction and good sense in very musical lines . But all this requires and implics a course of severe and patient study . Poetry of this ...
... taste of their predecessors have betrayed them : They may , moreover , convey a great deal of instruction and good sense in very musical lines . But all this requires and implics a course of severe and patient study . Poetry of this ...
Page 49
... taste requires in every writer . Those great masters of historical sagacity and chaste elegance , the Greek and Roman historians , were turned over day and night , and studied for twenty years , before Hume , or Robertson , or Gibbon ...
... taste requires in every writer . Those great masters of historical sagacity and chaste elegance , the Greek and Roman historians , were turned over day and night , and studied for twenty years , before Hume , or Robertson , or Gibbon ...
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... taste in that country being thus allowed to control the public taste in this , in so many particulars of ordinary occurrence , cannot fail to influence our opinions on the more important subjects of po- litics , religion , morals , and ...
... taste in that country being thus allowed to control the public taste in this , in so many particulars of ordinary occurrence , cannot fail to influence our opinions on the more important subjects of po- litics , religion , morals , and ...
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... taste . In brief , they do not originate by generation , grow by nutrition , or terminate by death . Animals , consist of parts organized into one whole ; each part being connected with and acting in conjunction with the others . The ...
... taste . In brief , they do not originate by generation , grow by nutrition , or terminate by death . Animals , consist of parts organized into one whole ; each part being connected with and acting in conjunction with the others . The ...
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... TASTE to decide a dispute which had long subsisted between them , concerning the point of precedence : but he always had the address to wave the subject . The exhibition of a poem and a picture in his temple , at length raised the ...
... TASTE to decide a dispute which had long subsisted between them , concerning the point of precedence : but he always had the address to wave the subject . The exhibition of a poem and a picture in his temple , at length raised the ...
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Page 310 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because, whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
Page 502 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Page 276 - Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profusion veil; And oft perforce his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought it curbs, but scarce conceals Though smooth his voice, and calm his general mien Still seems there something he would not have seen His features...
Page 37 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limits to their sway Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Page 309 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 37 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense — the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way...
Page 276 - Whose name appals the fiercest of his crew, And tints each swarthy cheek with sallower hue; Still sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart. What is that spell, that thus his lawless train Confess and envy, yet oppose in vain? What should it be, that thus their faith can bind? The power of Thought - the magic of the Mind!
Page 310 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened...
Page 137 - Cairo, the 1 5th of November, 1788, the day before he was to set out for the head of the Nile; on which day, however, he ended his career and life: and thus failed the first attempt to explore the western part of our northern continent.
Page 502 - And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.