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... thoughts to some astonishing power , as concerned in the production of the object . SUBLIMITY IN WRITING . THE foundation of the sublime in composi- tion must always be laid in the nature of the object described . Unless it be such an ...
... thoughts to some astonishing power , as concerned in the production of the object . SUBLIMITY IN WRITING . THE foundation of the sublime in composi- tion must always be laid in the nature of the object described . Unless it be such an ...
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... thought is magnificently expanded in the following passage of Isaiah ; Chap . xxiv . 24 , 27 , 28. " Thus saith the Lord , thy Redeemer , and he , that formed thee from the womb ; I am the Lord , that maketh all things ; that stretcheth ...
... thought is magnificently expanded in the following passage of Isaiah ; Chap . xxiv . 24 , 27 , 28. " Thus saith the Lord , thy Redeemer , and he , that formed thee from the womb ; I am the Lord , that maketh all things ; that stretcheth ...
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... the light to exist and , as Boileau , justly observed , the style is indeed raised , but the thought is degra- ded . In general it may be observed , that 59 Beauty and other Pleasures of Taste . 35 the sublime 34 Sublimity in Writing .
... the light to exist and , as Boileau , justly observed , the style is indeed raised , but the thought is degra- ded . In general it may be observed , that 59 Beauty and other Pleasures of Taste . 35 the sublime 34 Sublimity in Writing .
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... thought to be the most perfect of all languages , is very regular and complete in the modes and tenses . The Latin , though formed on the same model , is not so perfect ; particularly in the passive voice , which forms most of the ...
... thought to be the most perfect of all languages , is very regular and complete in the modes and tenses . The Latin , though formed on the same model , is not so perfect ; particularly in the passive voice , which forms most of the ...
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... in our tongue such a circle of expression , such a power of accommo- dation to the various tastes of men , as redounds much to its honour . Our language has been thought to be very deficient in 68 Structure of Language .
... in our tongue such a circle of expression , such a power of accommo- dation to the various tastes of men , as redounds much to its honour . Our language has been thought to be very deficient in 68 Structure of Language .
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Page 232 - Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 106 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 228 - Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 31 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 134 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Page 230 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 233 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Page 116 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 229 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way?