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... Hero , the Philosopher , and the Scholar . It requires indeed a strength of understanding and a solidity of judgment , to distinguish those actions which are truly great , from such as have only the shew and appearance of it . The noise ...
... Hero , the Philosopher , and the Scholar . It requires indeed a strength of understanding and a solidity of judgment , to distinguish those actions which are truly great , from such as have only the shew and appearance of it . The noise ...
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... to conquer , but not hero enough to forgive , poured all his vengeance on the head of Lon- ginus . He was borne away to immediate execution , amidst the generous condolence of those who knew exe- 16 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... to conquer , but not hero enough to forgive , poured all his vengeance on the head of Lon- ginus . He was borne away to immediate execution , amidst the generous condolence of those who knew exe- 16 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.
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... Heroes of a Dunciad , than for Judges of fine sense and fine writing . The business of a Critic is not only to find fault , nor to be all bitterness and gall . Yet such behaviour , in those who have usurped the name , has brought the ...
... Heroes of a Dunciad , than for Judges of fine sense and fine writing . The business of a Critic is not only to find fault , nor to be all bitterness and gall . Yet such behaviour , in those who have usurped the name , has brought the ...
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... heroes at the expence of his deities , and sunken the divine nature far below the human ; and therefore deserves that censure of blasphemy which Longinus has passed upon him . Had the poet designed to have turned the imaginary gods of ...
... heroes at the expence of his deities , and sunken the divine nature far below the human ; and therefore deserves that censure of blasphemy which Longinus has passed upon him . Had the poet designed to have turned the imaginary gods of ...
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... heroes of good writing , Xenophon and Plato , though edu- cated in the school of Socrates , sometimes forget themselves , and transgress through an affectation of such pretty flourishes ? The former in his Polity of the Lacedemonians ...
... heroes of good writing , Xenophon and Plato , though edu- cated in the school of Socrates , sometimes forget themselves , and transgress through an affectation of such pretty flourishes ? The former in his Polity of the Lacedemonians ...
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Page 127 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 40 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 96 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 67 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold...
Page 92 - I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 114 - He spake ; and, to confirm his words, out flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Page 116 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 167 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 138 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 90 - These see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. For He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.