Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 ; Complete in One VolumeHarper, 1838 - 324 páginas |
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... becomes more complex , curious , and altogether artificial , incapable ( except as an accompaniment to dancing ) of being understood or appreciated by any except professors and ama- teurs . In this department , though very imperfectly ...
... becomes more complex , curious , and altogether artificial , incapable ( except as an accompaniment to dancing ) of being understood or appreciated by any except professors and ama- teurs . In this department , though very imperfectly ...
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... becomes an illusion , but that which enables the mind within itself to form an ideal prototype worthy of the pictured representation . Even when we know that the scenes are from nature , admiration of the pencil that drew them is the ...
... becomes an illusion , but that which enables the mind within itself to form an ideal prototype worthy of the pictured representation . Even when we know that the scenes are from nature , admiration of the pencil that drew them is the ...
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... become a statue of thought in the mind . This may be principally owing to the paucity of subjects ( I mean as the art is now practised ) , and , to an uninitiated eye at least , the similarity of treatment by ordinary adepts , whether ...
... become a statue of thought in the mind . This may be principally owing to the paucity of subjects ( I mean as the art is now practised ) , and , to an uninitiated eye at least , the similarity of treatment by ordinary adepts , whether ...
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... becomes manifest . On the contrary , from our hasty , negligent , or imperfect perception of it , truth may sometimes be mistaken for imposture ; but when resolutely , patiently , honestly searched into , it grad- ually grows clearer ...
... becomes manifest . On the contrary , from our hasty , negligent , or imperfect perception of it , truth may sometimes be mistaken for imposture ; but when resolutely , patiently , honestly searched into , it grad- ually grows clearer ...
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... becomes too potent ; the unconcerned spectator finds himself there in the vicinity , here in the midst , of a miserable every - day town ; while the transported seaman , first on the shore , the moment he leaps from the boat , and ...
... becomes too potent ; the unconcerned spectator finds himself there in the vicinity , here in the midst , of a miserable every - day town ; while the transported seaman , first on the shore , the moment he leaps from the boat , and ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Página 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.