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... ideas into the prospect , whereby " the repose Of earth , sky , sea , and air was vivified . " Hence we may perceive , why what is called a taste for the picturesque never arises in a country , until it has reacht an advanced stage of ...
... ideas into the prospect , whereby " the repose Of earth , sky , sea , and air was vivified . " Hence we may perceive , why what is called a taste for the picturesque never arises in a country , until it has reacht an advanced stage of ...
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... ideas of superhuman power , is finely illustrated by Wordsworth in one of the noblest passages of the Excursion : where he casts a glance over the workings of this principle in the mythologies of the Persians , the Babylonians , the ...
... ideas of superhuman power , is finely illustrated by Wordsworth in one of the noblest passages of the Excursion : where he casts a glance over the workings of this principle in the mythologies of the Persians , the Babylonians , the ...
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... in - all , to whose level the gods themselves were brought down , -not the skeleton man of philosophy , nor the puppet of empirical observation , -- but the ideal man of imaginative thought , an idea as GUESSES AT TRUTH . 41.
... in - all , to whose level the gods themselves were brought down , -not the skeleton man of philosophy , nor the puppet of empirical observation , -- but the ideal man of imaginative thought , an idea as GUESSES AT TRUTH . 41.
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... idea as perfect as it can be , when drawn from no higher source than what lies in man himself . The manifold dazzling glories of Athens and of Greece filled their minds with the notion of the greatness of human nature : and that ...
... idea as perfect as it can be , when drawn from no higher source than what lies in man himself . The manifold dazzling glories of Athens and of Greece filled their minds with the notion of the greatness of human nature : and that ...
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... idea . But as thieves never know or dare to make the right use of their stolen goods , so is it mostly with plagiaries . The verbal likeness only exposes the empty turgidity of Dryden : nor can there be a more striking illustration of ...
... idea . But as thieves never know or dare to make the right use of their stolen goods , so is it mostly with plagiaries . The verbal likeness only exposes the empty turgidity of Dryden : nor can there be a more striking illustration of ...
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admiration beauty become better blessed body called character Christian Church Cicero Coleridge deemed Demosthenes Diocletian discern duty earth effect England English epic poetry errour evil expression eyes faith fancy feelings former genius give Goethe Greece Greek ground hand heart heaven Hence Homer human nature idea Iliad imagination individual instance intellectual Italy Julius Charles Hare knowledge labour language Laodamia least less light living look man's mankind manner means Medea merely Milton mind modern moral nation never object ochlocracy outward passage passions perfect perhaps persons philosophy Plato poem poet poetry principle racter reason reflexion regard religion Roman Rome seems seldom Sermons Shakspeare shew sight Socrates sophism Sophocles soul speaking spirit stand style sure Tacitus things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth understanding unity utterance whole wisdom words Wordsworth writers
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Página 251 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to mode!
Página 348 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Página 235 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 86 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Página 211 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 372 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Página 23 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature : for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on, when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
Página 484 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 41 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 368 - ... forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance...