Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 ; Complete in One Volume |
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... pure and perfect in essence , though incrusted with baser matter , as among the most enlightened nations . With the first , however , it is seldomer seen , not being laboriously dug from the mine , purified in the furnace , or polished ...
... pure and perfect in essence , though incrusted with baser matter , as among the most enlightened nations . With the first , however , it is seldomer seen , not being laboriously dug from the mine , purified in the furnace , or polished ...
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... , nothing earthly so effectually presents to our " high - raised phantasy , " " That undisturbed song of pure consent , Aye sung around the sapphire - colour'd throne , To Him that sits thereon : * * * * 14 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
... , nothing earthly so effectually presents to our " high - raised phantasy , " " That undisturbed song of pure consent , Aye sung around the sapphire - colour'd throne , To Him that sits thereon : * * * * 14 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
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... pure truth ; while , by the former , we must be left proportion- ately in ignorance of some things needful to be known , to form a correct judgment of great and complicated transactions . Now the defects and errors of poets concerning ...
... pure truth ; while , by the former , we must be left proportion- ately in ignorance of some things needful to be known , to form a correct judgment of great and complicated transactions . Now the defects and errors of poets concerning ...
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... pure spiritual principles that teach the love of God and the love of man ) , in comparison with the humblest Christian who can read his Bible , and know , from its influence upon his heart , his con- science , and his life , that it is ...
... pure spiritual principles that teach the love of God and the love of man ) , in comparison with the humblest Christian who can read his Bible , and know , from its influence upon his heart , his con- science , and his life , that it is ...
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... pure taste can conceive in the silence of thought , while he looks upon the page that records them . Do not the harmonies of Shak- speare himself ring more melodiously in remem- brance than they D2 WHAT IS POETICAL . 41.
... pure taste can conceive in the silence of thought , while he looks upon the page that records them . Do not the harmonies of Shak- speare himself ring more melodiously in remem- brance than they D2 WHAT IS POETICAL . 41.
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Page 229 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 114 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 231 - Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 94 - Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
Page 86 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Page 78 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.
Page 77 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their...
Page 227 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice ; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt : 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Page 76 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.