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... Cause of the Inferiority of the British Mercantile Marine Dangers of Popular Ignorance Deepening the Beds of Navigable Rivers Duchess of Kent , Portrait of Disappointments of Men of Genius Flit through the Royal Academy Fuseli ...
... Cause of the Inferiority of the British Mercantile Marine Dangers of Popular Ignorance Deepening the Beds of Navigable Rivers Duchess of Kent , Portrait of Disappointments of Men of Genius Flit through the Royal Academy Fuseli ...
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... cause of such crimes as we have instanced , then that we have fully established the immediate and pressing importance of our subject : -it is not one that may be postponed to " a more convenient season , " and to treat it in any spirit ...
... cause of such crimes as we have instanced , then that we have fully established the immediate and pressing importance of our subject : -it is not one that may be postponed to " a more convenient season , " and to treat it in any spirit ...
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... causes . But frenzy is but the excess of enthusiasm- passion is but the exaggeration of feelings which , rightly directed , perform a useful office in the economy of human affairs ; and the absence of those feelings which , when ...
... causes . But frenzy is but the excess of enthusiasm- passion is but the exaggeration of feelings which , rightly directed , perform a useful office in the economy of human affairs ; and the absence of those feelings which , when ...
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... cause to look on a large class of his subjects as his deadliest enemies . It is not every nation in Europe , however free they may fancy themselves to be , that can show these symptoms of a mild and paternal rule ; nor every king whose ...
... cause to look on a large class of his subjects as his deadliest enemies . It is not every nation in Europe , however free they may fancy themselves to be , that can show these symptoms of a mild and paternal rule ; nor every king whose ...
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... causes than a mental powers , passions , and sentiments of man , for an e diversities of his social and physical ... cause sufficie effect , and conforming to the analogy observable thr phenomena of nature , which are dependant in ...
... causes than a mental powers , passions , and sentiments of man , for an e diversities of his social and physical ... cause sufficie effect , and conforming to the analogy observable thr phenomena of nature , which are dependant in ...
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Page 87 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Page 171 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription. TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 441 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 6 - But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of the soul.
Page 471 - When the hand of time shall have brushed off his present Editors and Commentators, and when the very name of Voltaire, and even the memory of the language in which he has written, shall be no more, the Apalachian mountains, the banks of the Ohio, and the plains of...
Page 431 - But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense : Strong in new arms, lo ! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums, Arrest him, empress ; or you sleep no more...
Page 435 - Omnipotent reigneth,' they were so transported that they all, together with the king (who happened to be present), started up, and remained standing till the chorus ended; and hence it became the fashion in England for the audience to stand while that part of the music is performing. Some days after the first exhibition of the same divine oratorio, Mr.
Page 124 - O son of Jove ! Was not the mandate of the sire above 250 Full and express, that Phoebus should employ His sacred arrows in defence of Troy, And make her conquer, till Hyperion's fall In awful darkness hide the face of all ? " He spoke in vain — The chief without dismay Ploughs through the boiling surge his desperate way.
Page 94 - The whole day was passed by this unhappy mother in a constant struggle between the desire of taking away the life of her infant and the dread of yielding to the impulse. She concealed her agitation until evening, when her confessor, a respectable old man, was the first to receive her confidence. He soothed her feelings, and counselled her to have medical assistance. ' When we arrived at her house,' says Michu, ' she appeared gloomy and depressed, and ashamed of her situation.
Page 441 - The characteristic quality of his poem is sublimity. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element is the great. He can occasionally invest himself with grace; but his natural port is gigantic loftiness. He can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power to astonish.