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Page cxxxi
... explain'd it ) Apt Num- bers , fit Quantity of Syllables , and the Senfe Variously drawn out from One Verfe into Ano- ther ; and we having Made the fame Word to ftand for the jingling Sound of Like Endings , He has Distinguish'd the ...
... explain'd it ) Apt Num- bers , fit Quantity of Syllables , and the Senfe Variously drawn out from One Verfe into Ano- ther ; and we having Made the fame Word to ftand for the jingling Sound of Like Endings , He has Distinguish'd the ...
Page clii
... Explain'd Better than by the Beft of their Profefs'd Commentators , but Never Debas'd ; and a Sublimity which All other Human Writings put Together have not . to Compleat All , He has made Ufe of All Thefe , fo as to be fubfervient to ...
... Explain'd Better than by the Beft of their Profefs'd Commentators , but Never Debas'd ; and a Sublimity which All other Human Writings put Together have not . to Compleat All , He has made Ufe of All Thefe , fo as to be fubfervient to ...
Page clxiv
... Explain'd and Re- mark'd upon in the Vulgar Tongue ; and Then it may be much better known to an Englishman than a Greek , Latin , or Italian Poem can be by the Beft Tranflation . though after all , Every Book is Obscure to Him who ...
... Explain'd and Re- mark'd upon in the Vulgar Tongue ; and Then it may be much better known to an Englishman than a Greek , Latin , or Italian Poem can be by the Beft Tranflation . though after all , Every Book is Obscure to Him who ...
Page clxv
... Explain'd and Remark'd upon , who have Most of the Poetical Genius by which it was Wrote , and which Those may be poffefs'd of who have not , or are not Known to have At- tempted to build the Lofty Rhyme . Learning is Unquestionably ...
... Explain'd and Remark'd upon , who have Most of the Poetical Genius by which it was Wrote , and which Those may be poffefs'd of who have not , or are not Known to have At- tempted to build the Lofty Rhyme . Learning is Unquestionably ...
Page clxxii
... Explain'd Himfelf , had he risen from his Urn and Dictated to Us . We have Al- ways Confulted Him in his Own Words , Pointed as Himself gave them to us ; We have feen what he has faid in Other Parts of his Work , or in Other Works of ...
... Explain'd Himfelf , had he risen from his Urn and Dictated to Us . We have Al- ways Confulted Him in his Own Words , Pointed as Himself gave them to us ; We have feen what he has faid in Other Parts of his Work , or in Other Works of ...
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Page 514 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page cvii - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 528 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page cv - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 513 - And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Page 529 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page cvii - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar...
Page 232 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page xxi - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page cxxii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.