 | Longinus, William Smith - Authors, Greek - 1752 - 242 pages
...:he power of God, has nobly exprefs'd it in the beginning of his Law IJ. " And God faid, " What? Let there be light, and " there was light. Let the earth be, and the " earth was." I They have tried it by a law of Horace mifunderftood, and therefore condemn it.... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...Nahum ui. 12, «* dignity, has written in the beginning of his " laws, And GOD faid — What ? — Let there be ** light, and there was light : Let the earth be, *' and the earth was *." To the fame purpofe I might mention another pafsage : " And I faw a great white throne,... | |
 | Edward King - Bible - 1800 - 606 pages
...fpccles ;} — after this FENE'ZQil ГН*,—КАГ 'EFE'NETO. GOD SAID, as Mofes informs us, tvbat 1 LET THERE BE LIGHT} AND THERE WAS LIGHT. LET THE EARTH BE;— AND THE EARTH WAS. The fublime brevity of the expreflion, is nobly pointed out by the Mafler of Eloquence.—... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 318 pages
...sublime does not consist in high sounding words, or pompous magnificence ; on the contrary, it most frequently appears clad in native dignity and simplicity,...from the book of Genesis, as possessing that quality ia an eminent degree. " God said let there be light, and there was light:— Let the earth be, and... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 544 pages
...sublime does not consist of high sounding words, or pompous magnificence; on the contrary, it most frequently appears clad in native dignity and simplicity,...eminent degree. " God said let there be light, and there was light : — Let the earth be, and earth was *." From what I have advanced on this subject,... | |
 | 1801 - 454 pages
...on the contrary, it most" frequently appears clad in native dignity and simplicity, without art, aud without ornament. The most elegant critic of antiquity,...Genesis, as possessing that quality in an eminent degree. t• How any man, enjoying the use of riis senses, could prefer the contemptible version of Brady and... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...sublime does not consist of high-sounding words, or pompous magnificence ; on the contrary, it most frequently appears clad in native dignity and simplicity,...eminent degree: " God said let there be light, and there was light : — Let the earth be, and earth zcas."* From what I have advanced on this subject,... | |
 | 1831 - 492 pages
...power of God, has nobly expressed it in the beginning of his law — 'And God said— • What ? ' Let there be light, and there was light ! Let the earth be; and the earth was!"' "There is a particularity," observes a commentator on this remark, " in the manner... | |
 | George Pretyman - Apologetics - 1815 - 578 pages
...power of God, has nobly expressed it in the beginning of his law; ' And God said,'—What?—' Let there be light, and there was light. Let the earth be, and the earth was'." Porphyry (b), one of the most acute and learned enemies of Christianity, admitted... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 336 pages
...sublime does not consist of high-sounding words, or pompous magnificence; on the contrary, it most frequently appears clad in native dignity and simplicity,...eminent degree : " God said let there be light, and there was light : — Let the earth be, and earth Was." * From what I have advanced on this subject,... | |
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And here it may not be amiss to observe, that the true sublime does not consist of high-sounding words, or pompous magnificence; on the contrary, it most frequently appears clad in native dignity and simplicity, without art, and without ornament. The... 
