The Works of William E. Channing, المجلد 1J. Munroe, 1848 - 440 من الصفحات |
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... genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities , and its flashes often open new regions of thought , and throw new light on the mysteries of our being . In poetry , when the letter is falsehood , the spirit is often profoundest ...
... genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities , and its flashes often open new regions of thought , and throw new light on the mysteries of our being . In poetry , when the letter is falsehood , the spirit is often profoundest ...
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... genius . The two first books , by universal consent , stand preeminent in sublimity . Hell and hell's king have a terrible harmony , and dilate into new grandeur and awfulness , the longer we contemplate them . From one element ...
... genius . The two first books , by universal consent , stand preeminent in sublimity . Hell and hell's king have a terrible harmony , and dilate into new grandeur and awfulness , the longer we contemplate them . From one element ...
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... genius . Critics have often observed , that the great difficulty of his work was , to reconcile the spiritual properties of his supernatural beings with the human modes of existence , which he is obliged to ascribe to them . The ...
... genius . Critics have often observed , that the great difficulty of his work was , to reconcile the spiritual properties of his supernatural beings with the human modes of existence , which he is obliged to ascribe to them . The ...
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... genius , which has power to impress itself on whatever it touches , and finds or frames , in sounds , motions , and material forms , correspondences and harmonies with its own fervid thoughts and feelings . ry We close our remarks on ...
... genius , which has power to impress itself on whatever it touches , and finds or frames , in sounds , motions , and material forms , correspondences and harmonies with its own fervid thoughts and feelings . ry We close our remarks on ...
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... genius , which we find in Shakspeare , whose imagination revelled equally in regions of mirth , beau- ty , and terror , now evoking spectres , now sporting with fairies , and now " ascending the highest heaven of invention . ” Milton ...
... genius , which we find in Shakspeare , whose imagination revelled equally in regions of mirth , beau- ty , and terror , now evoking spectres , now sporting with fairies , and now " ascending the highest heaven of invention . ” Milton ...
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الصفحة 28 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
الصفحة 50 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
الصفحة 320 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
الصفحة 316 - Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore ; for it is holy unto you : every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death : for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
الصفحة 13 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
الصفحة 52 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
الصفحة 229 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
الصفحة 14 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes. And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
الصفحة 17 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
الصفحة 35 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...