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... 251 THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE , 256 THE IMPROVEMENT OF GENIUS , THE MUSICAL HOST , SINGULARITY IN BEHAVIOUR , THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION , 261 267 270 273 WISDOM , WIT , AND ALLEGORY . PROPER EMPLOYMENT OF viii Contents .
... 251 THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE , 256 THE IMPROVEMENT OF GENIUS , THE MUSICAL HOST , SINGULARITY IN BEHAVIOUR , THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION , 261 267 270 273 WISDOM , WIT , AND ALLEGORY . PROPER EMPLOYMENT OF viii Contents .
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... imagination can extend itself . These are the mansions of good men after death , who , according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled , are distributed among " At these several islands ; which abound with pleasures ...
... imagination can extend itself . These are the mansions of good men after death , who , according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled , are distributed among " At these several islands ; which abound with pleasures ...
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... imaginations , we are to consider that the rule of observing what the French call the bienséance in an allusion , has been ... imagination . At the same time , can anything be more ridiculous than for men of a sober and moderate fancy to ...
... imaginations , we are to consider that the rule of observing what the French call the bienséance in an allusion , has been ... imagination . At the same time , can anything be more ridiculous than for men of a sober and moderate fancy to ...
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... imagination of a writer , who had not a soul filled with great ideas , and a general benevolence to mankind . In a celebrated passage of Sallust , where Cæsar and Cato are placed in such beautiful , but opposite lights , Cæsar's ...
... imagination of a writer , who had not a soul filled with great ideas , and a general benevolence to mankind . In a celebrated passage of Sallust , where Cæsar and Cato are placed in such beautiful , but opposite lights , Cæsar's ...
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... imagination , and give an opportunity for the sublimest thoughts and conceptions . Plutarch tells us of a heathen who was singing a hymn to Diana , in which he celebrated her for her delight in human sacrifices , and other instances of ...
... imagination , and give an opportunity for the sublimest thoughts and conceptions . Plutarch tells us of a heathen who was singing a hymn to Diana , in which he celebrated her for her delight in human sacrifices , and other instances of ...
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Page 201 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Page 263 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Page 66 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 213 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 25 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 210 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 200 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 116 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 268 - On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation.
Page 67 - Ten thousand, thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.