The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1805 |
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... poetic effusions of the imagination , for the language of reason and experience ? Let us attend , however , to the discovery , which well merits to be placed with that ingenious doctor's theory of the windst . What physiologist has ...
... poetic effusions of the imagination , for the language of reason and experience ? Let us attend , however , to the discovery , which well merits to be placed with that ingenious doctor's theory of the windst . What physiologist has ...
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... Poem , in three Parts . By John Blair Linn , A. M. 12mo . 5s . Boards . Williams . 1804 . THERE is not a more delightful province in the regions of literature , than the application of philosophy to matters of taste . It affords a ...
... Poem , in three Parts . By John Blair Linn , A. M. 12mo . 5s . Boards . Williams . 1804 . THERE is not a more delightful province in the regions of literature , than the application of philosophy to matters of taste . It affords a ...
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... poem , seasoned with episodes , and garnished with the flowers of fancy . Witness the didactic works on poetry , of Horace , Vida , and Boileau ; Pope's Art of Criticism ; ' Akenside's ' Pleasures of the Imagination ; ' with divers ...
... poem , seasoned with episodes , and garnished with the flowers of fancy . Witness the didactic works on poetry , of Horace , Vida , and Boileau ; Pope's Art of Criticism ; ' Akenside's ' Pleasures of the Imagination ; ' with divers ...
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... poem . But times are altered ; a taste for composition has since then pervaded all ranks of either sex ; the stream of science , if it has not deep- ened its channel , has expanded its surface ; and the question in which we feel an ...
... poem . But times are altered ; a taste for composition has since then pervaded all ranks of either sex ; the stream of science , if it has not deep- ened its channel , has expanded its surface ; and the question in which we feel an ...
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... poem itself we have to complain first that Genius is made a female by Mr. Linn : ' Genius we know by her impetuous force . ' This line , which is the third from the beginning of the poem , we quote in preference to many others , because ...
... poem itself we have to complain first that Genius is made a female by Mr. Linn : ' Genius we know by her impetuous force . ' This line , which is the third from the beginning of the poem , we quote in preference to many others , because ...
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Página 47 - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say ? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods : because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Página 231 - And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !...
Página 50 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Página 231 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey.
Página 228 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lost...
Página 162 - God but by new birth, nor according to the manifest ordinary course of divine dispensation newborn, but by that baptism which both declareth and maketh us Christians. In which respect we justly hold it to be the door of our actual entrance into God's house, the first apparent beginning of life, a seal perhaps to the grace of Election, before received, but to our sanctification here a step that hath not any before it.
Página 382 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 48 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Página 45 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Página 141 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...