 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 760 pages
...From things deform'd, or disarranged, or gross In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, sso Nor purple state, nor culture can bestow ; But God...all, Free as the vital breeze or light of heaven, 525 Reveals the charms of Nature. Ask the swain Who journeys homeward from a summer day's Long labour,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...impulse ? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust For things deform'd or disarranged or gross In species? This nor gems, nor stores of...active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. AKENSIDE: Pleasures of Imagination. A taste which plenty does deprave, Loathes lawful good, and lawless... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...the tusto arises from a keen and true perception of the beautiful. — Wieland, TASTE.— God Bestows This nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state,...active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. — Dr. Akenside. TASTE.— A Vicions I am afraid a vicious taste is gaining ground both among preachers... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...impulse? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deform'd or disarranged, or gross In species ? This, nor gems, nor stores of...active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. — Akenside. 3277. TEACHER. Dignity of the THE angel-choir His praise may chant in rapturous songs... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...impulse ? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust For things deform'd or disarranged or gross In species? This nor gems, nor stores of...state, nor culture, can bestow ; But God alone, when firsl his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. AKENSIDE: Pleasures of Imagination. A taste... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1878 - 792 pages
...? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deform'd or disarrang'd, or gross In species ? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture can bestow ; aa But God alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. He, mighty Parent!... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - Philosophy - 1878 - 1082 pages
...quick disgust From things deformed, or disarranged, or Kroim, In species? Thin, nor gems, nor Ftore* of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow, But God alone, when first his siicred hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul.'1 J'ieasvrts of Imagin., b. Ill, 1. 683. " We may... | |
 | J. W. Appleton - 1879 - 216 pages
...These born to judge, as well as those to write.''* • And Akenside, speaking of taste, says : — " This nor gems nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture can bestow,But God alone, when fii st His sacred hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul.' t Essay on... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...impulse? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust For things deformed or disarranged or gross In species ? This nor gems, nor stores of...or light of heaven. Reveals the charms of Nature. . . . Different minds Incline to different objects : one pursues • I'-e mnin( itsr. 1793-j WILLIAM... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross In species. This, nor gems, nor stores of...active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. Akenside, Pleasures of lmagination, book i. TASTE. BUT what is Taste, you ask, this heaven-born fire... | |
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From things deform'd, or disarrange, or gross In species '. This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture can bestow ; But GOD alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. 
