Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 ; Complete in One VolumeHarper, 1838 - 324 sidor |
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... especially that of the early periods , is as fabulous as the mythology of the gods , which usually precedes the traditions of the men that first made and then worshipped them . Poetry , in one sense , builds up the ruins of his- tory ...
... especially that of the early periods , is as fabulous as the mythology of the gods , which usually precedes the traditions of the men that first made and then worshipped them . Poetry , in one sense , builds up the ruins of his- tory ...
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... especially in ethics . Most of the philosophers are but names , and their systems traditions , at this day . Plato , Aristotle , Cicero , and Seneca alone have survived in sufficient bulk , to show what they were ; giants in intellect ...
... especially in ethics . Most of the philosophers are but names , and their systems traditions , at this day . Plato , Aristotle , Cicero , and Seneca alone have survived in sufficient bulk , to show what they were ; giants in intellect ...
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... especially attracted in contrary directions . The infant , so soon as it begins to think and reason , looks wholly before it , in the pursuit of knowledge and power , while desire increases with what it feeds upon , and hope grows out ...
... especially attracted in contrary directions . The infant , so soon as it begins to think and reason , looks wholly before it , in the pursuit of knowledge and power , while desire increases with what it feeds upon , and hope grows out ...
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... especially at the earliest , the most endeared , though the most familiar , of the whole series . Ah ! then , how naturally will some bright day , among the many clouded ones , recur to him in all its splendour , and be spent , like ...
... especially at the earliest , the most endeared , though the most familiar , of the whole series . Ah ! then , how naturally will some bright day , among the many clouded ones , recur to him in all its splendour , and be spent , like ...
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... especially if the possessor had achieved some great feat with it . The sword of Goliath was glo- rious and terrible in the giant's own grasp ; but was it not a thousand times more awful to look upon in the hand of David , the stripling ...
... especially if the possessor had achieved some great feat with it . The sword of Goliath was glo- rious and terrible in the giant's own grasp ; but was it not a thousand times more awful to look upon in the hand of David , the stripling ...
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Sida 229 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Sida 114 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Sida 231 - Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Sida 94 - Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
Sida 86 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Sida 78 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.
Sida 77 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their...
Sida 227 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice ; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt : 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Sida 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Sida 76 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.