 Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct...  Poems - Page 66by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...bravery, or virtue. The man is little 1 to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon tl,e plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." cellence in style, when it is used with propriety, for it 1777gives you two ideas for one ;— conveys... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1807 - 496 pages
...That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Maratkon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona * 1" * Had our Tour produced nothing else but this .sublime passage, the world must have acknowledged... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...from the power of our senses, whatever makes tha past, the distant, or the future predominate over (he present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings....whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Jona!" It would however be unreasonable to expect that every book of travels should be as highly •... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Jomi !" It would however be unreasonable to expect that every book of travels should be as highly finished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments; some care was necessary for ourselves. Whatever was in the island,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plajn of Marathon* or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins oflona. We came too late to visit monuments; some care was necessary for ourselves. Whatever was iu... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care •was necessary for ourselves. Whatever was in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Jona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves. Whatever was in... | |
 | James MacDonald (A.M.), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - Agriculture - 1811 - 848 pages
...the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over th» present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings....piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Y y 2 Some Some of the fossils of Icolmkill deserve notice.— I. The Port-na-Cu' aich stone, often... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton - Indians of North America - 1812 - 90 pages
...horror: And if " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Joua," we may with equal confidence assert, that morbid must be his sensibility and small must be his... | |
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