Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Volume 1Cummings and Hilliard, 1812 - 434 pages |
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... give their approbation to compositions of little value . It is not , that they are incapable of learning in what the merits of such compositions consist , for these principles of judgment are neither numerous nor abstruse . It is not ...
... give their approbation to compositions of little value . It is not , that they are incapable of learning in what the merits of such compositions consist , for these principles of judgment are neither numerous nor abstruse . It is not ...
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... give ; and when they are willing to recover their emotion , must withdraw their attention from those minute considerations , and leave their fancy to expatiate at will , amid all the great or pleasing conceptions , which such ...
... give ; and when they are willing to recover their emotion , must withdraw their attention from those minute considerations , and leave their fancy to expatiate at will , amid all the great or pleasing conceptions , which such ...
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... give a kind of sanctity to the place where they dwelt , and converts every thing into beauty which appears to have been connected with them . There are scenes , undoubtedly , more beautiful than Runnymede , yet , to those who recollect ...
... give a kind of sanctity to the place where they dwelt , and converts every thing into beauty which appears to have been connected with them . There are scenes , undoubtedly , more beautiful than Runnymede , yet , to those who recollect ...
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... give it a sublimity which does not naturally belong to it . The majesty of the Alps themselves is increased by the re- membrance of Hannibal's march over them ; and who is there , that could stand on the banks of the Rubicon , without ...
... give it a sublimity which does not naturally belong to it . The majesty of the Alps themselves is increased by the re- membrance of Hannibal's march over them ; and who is there , that could stand on the banks of the Rubicon , without ...
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... gives cred- " it to the tales of the country people , who , to aggravate " its horrors , always point to a precipice , down which " they say a young woman of the village threw herself " headlong , in despair at the neglect of a man whom ...
... gives cred- " it to the tales of the country people , who , to aggravate " its horrors , always point to a precipice , down which " they say a young woman of the village threw herself " headlong , in despair at the neglect of a man whom ...
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Page 119 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Page 89 - The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees, the linnet's lay of love, And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 89 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Page 39 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school , The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind...
Page 43 - Ocean itself no longer can resist The binding fury; but, in all its rage Of tempest, taken by the boundless frost, Is many a fathom to the bottom chained, And bid to roar no more...
Page 46 - Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks, Bow'd their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer.
Page 39 - The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The...
Page 118 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire ; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came...
Page 119 - The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch: Fire answers fire; and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umber'd face: Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
Page 410 - We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears, and importunate lamentations. But we reverence that reserved, that silent and majestic sorrow, which discovers itself only in the swelling of the eyes, in the quivering of the lips and cheeks, and in the distant, but affecting, coldness of the whole behaviour. It imposes the like silence upon us.