Elements of CriticismA.S. Barnes & Burr, 1859 - 486 pages |
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... course of discipline , custom , which improves all our faculties , bestows acuteness on that of reason , sufficient to unravel all the intricacies of philosophy . * Nor ( 3 ) ought it to be overlooked , that the reasonings employed on ...
... course of discipline , custom , which improves all our faculties , bestows acuteness on that of reason , sufficient to unravel all the intricacies of philosophy . * Nor ( 3 ) ought it to be overlooked , that the reasonings employed on ...
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... course , they are continued through the strictest connections : the mind extends its view to a son more readily than to a servant ; and more readily to a neighbor than to one living at a distance . This order , as observed , may be ...
... course , they are continued through the strictest connections : the mind extends its view to a son more readily than to a servant ; and more readily to a neighbor than to one living at a distance . This order , as observed , may be ...
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... course ; the mind falls with a heavy body , descends with a river , and ascends with flame and smoke : in tracing out a family , we incline to begin at the founder , and to descend gradually to his latest posterity ; on the contrary ...
... course ; the mind falls with a heavy body , descends with a river , and ascends with flame and smoke : in tracing out a family , we incline to begin at the founder , and to descend gradually to his latest posterity ; on the contrary ...
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... course . Elevation touches the mind no less than grandeur doth ; and in raising the mind to elevated objects , there is a sensible pleasure : the course of nature , however , hath still a greater influence than elevation ; and therefore ...
... course . Elevation touches the mind no less than grandeur doth ; and in raising the mind to elevated objects , there is a sensible pleasure : the course of nature , however , hath still a greater influence than elevation ; and therefore ...
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... course he bends , And at the goddess his broad lance extends : Through her bright veil the daring weapon drove , Th ' ambrosial veil , which all the graces wove : Her snowy hand the razing steel profaned , And the transparent skin with ...
... course he bends , And at the goddess his broad lance extends : Through her bright veil the daring weapon drove , Th ' ambrosial veil , which all the graces wove : Her snowy hand the razing steel profaned , And the transparent skin with ...
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Page 94 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...
Page 56 - O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here ! Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 347 - 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 enamel'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 92 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 92 - Help me, Cassius, or I sink.' I, as ./Eneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear...
Page 213 - MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Page 20 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 349 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 146 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Page 349 - 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.