Dionysius Longinus On the SublimeB. Dod, 1743 - 189 pages |
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... Turn , tho ' the latter are , for the most part , more commendable in themselves and more useful to the World . The Imagination of the bulk of Mankind is more alive than their Judg- ment : Hence Cafar is more admired for the part he ...
... Turn , tho ' the latter are , for the most part , more commendable in themselves and more useful to the World . The Imagination of the bulk of Mankind is more alive than their Judg- ment : Hence Cafar is more admired for the part he ...
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... turn out at beft but dark and imperfect ; yet opens into two principal Views , which may prove of double use to a thoughtful and confiderate Reader . As a Writer of a refined and polish'd Taste , of a found and penetrating Judgment , it ...
... turn out at beft but dark and imperfect ; yet opens into two principal Views , which may prove of double use to a thoughtful and confiderate Reader . As a Writer of a refined and polish'd Taste , of a found and penetrating Judgment , it ...
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... turn of Thought of them all , and could difcern every Beauty or Blemish in every Compofition . In vain might inferior Critics exclaim against this Monopoly of Judg- ment . Whatever Objections they raised a- gainst it , were mere Air and ...
... turn of Thought of them all , and could difcern every Beauty or Blemish in every Compofition . In vain might inferior Critics exclaim against this Monopoly of Judg- ment . Whatever Objections they raised a- gainst it , were mere Air and ...
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... Turn , qualify not only for Study and Retirement , but will enable their Owners to fhine , I will not fay in more ho- nourable , but , in more confpicuous Views , and to appear on the public Stage of Life with Dignity and Honour . And ...
... Turn , qualify not only for Study and Retirement , but will enable their Owners to fhine , I will not fay in more ho- nourable , but , in more confpicuous Views , and to appear on the public Stage of Life with Dignity and Honour . And ...
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... Turn , could reject it , as un- worthy a perufal . Befides , Zenobia , according to the Teftimony of Photius * was a Jewish Convert . And I have fomewhere feen it men- tioned from Bellarmine , that fhe was a Chri- ftian ; but as I am a ...
... Turn , could reject it , as un- worthy a perufal . Befides , Zenobia , according to the Teftimony of Photius * was a Jewish Convert . And I have fomewhere feen it men- tioned from Bellarmine , that fhe was a Chri- ftian ; but as I am a ...
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Page 130 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 154 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; .and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Page 123 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 22 - O'er my dim Eyes a Darkness hung; My Ears with hollow Murmurs rung. In dewy Damps my Limbs were chill'd; My Blood with gentle Horrors thrill'd; My feeble Pulse forgot to play, I fainted, sunk, and dy'd away.
Page 165 - I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not, I searched out.
Page 157 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. Unto you, 0 men, I call ; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 119 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 151 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 157 - Both turn'd, and under open sky ador'd The GOD that made both sky, air, earth, and heav'n Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole. Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day...