Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical RemarksGeorge H. Evans, 1832 - 296 من الصفحات |
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... Letters - When Letters were invented - Lettered men of the Early Ages - Influence of Letters upon Man - Effect of Letters decried by Certain Reasoners - Their Assertions Denied - Letters more Glorious and Permanent than Art - The ...
... Letters - When Letters were invented - Lettered men of the Early Ages - Influence of Letters upon Man - Effect of Letters decried by Certain Reasoners - Their Assertions Denied - Letters more Glorious and Permanent than Art - The ...
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... in a greater or less degree . The advantages of having this trea- sure to put our hands in , and to take from it at will , is incalculable ; for , without letters , man was but a sa- vage : he knew nothing of the past , except 10.
... in a greater or less degree . The advantages of having this trea- sure to put our hands in , and to take from it at will , is incalculable ; for , without letters , man was but a sa- vage : he knew nothing of the past , except 10.
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... Letters were invented when man was passing from a savage to a barbarous state , on his way to refinement . The influence of the invention of letters was soon seen in the character and conduct of those who were fortu- nate enough to ...
... Letters were invented when man was passing from a savage to a barbarous state , on his way to refinement . The influence of the invention of letters was soon seen in the character and conduct of those who were fortu- nate enough to ...
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... letters upon past ages , or turning to the pages of those works which it could be proved had humanized the world , we can say , in general , that letters have been the most useful , the most glorious , and the most permanent monument of ...
... letters upon past ages , or turning to the pages of those works which it could be proved had humanized the world , we can say , in general , that letters have been the most useful , the most glorious , and the most permanent monument of ...
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... Letters live longer than temples or monumental arches . The prayer of Solo- mon , at the dedication of the Temple , is still preserved in all its piety and sweetness , but the house of the Lord is demolished , and the angels who guarded ...
... Letters live longer than temples or monumental arches . The prayer of Solo- mon , at the dedication of the Temple , is still preserved in all its piety and sweetness , but the house of the Lord is demolished , and the angels who guarded ...
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الصفحة 257 - Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, 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.
الصفحة 254 - And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste...
الصفحة 69 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
الصفحة 53 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
الصفحة 253 - In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
الصفحة 104 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part, which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonising wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
الصفحة 64 - I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their port was more than human as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
الصفحة 157 - I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices, that, alas! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
الصفحة 52 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.
الصفحة 69 - Music the fiercest grief can. charm, And Fate's severest rage disarm ; Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th...