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... stance of Sublimity without Passion . The descriptions of Satan and the other fallen angels are very grand , but terrible . They do not so much exalt as terrify the ima- gination . See Mr. Addison's observations , Spectator , N ° 339 ...
... stance of Sublimity without Passion . The descriptions of Satan and the other fallen angels are very grand , but terrible . They do not so much exalt as terrify the ima- gination . See Mr. Addison's observations , Spectator , N ° 339 ...
Page 68
... stances as tend to raise a just and natural aversion , is no where more visible than in his description of a Lazar - house , Book 11th . An inferior genius might have amused himself , with expatiating on the filthy and nauseous objects ...
... stances as tend to raise a just and natural aversion , is no where more visible than in his description of a Lazar - house , Book 11th . An inferior genius might have amused himself , with expatiating on the filthy and nauseous objects ...
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... stances to strengthen this remark . ) Horace's law , that a beginning should be unadorned , does not by any means forbid it to be grand , since grandeur consists not in ornament and dress . He then shews at large , that whatever noble ...
... stances to strengthen this remark . ) Horace's law , that a beginning should be unadorned , does not by any means forbid it to be grand , since grandeur consists not in ornament and dress . He then shews at large , that whatever noble ...
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... stances , and an ingenious and skilful con- nexion of them into one body , must neces- sarily produce the Sublime . For what by the judicious choice , and what by the skilful connexion , they cannot but very much affect the imagination ...
... stances , and an ingenious and skilful con- nexion of them into one body , must neces- sarily produce the Sublime . For what by the judicious choice , and what by the skilful connexion , they cannot but very much affect the imagination ...
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... stances inherent in the things themselves , " as gives them additional strength , by dwell- " ing some time upon , and progressively " heightning a particular point . " It differs from Proof in a material article , since the end of a ...
... stances inherent in the things themselves , " as gives them additional strength , by dwell- " ing some time upon , and progressively " heightning a particular point . " It differs from Proof in a material article , since the end of a ...
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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.