The Poetry of Life, Volumul 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 |
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Pagina 29
... sublime attempts at sculpture which arose among the Egyptians , and were afterwards improved upon by the more re- fined inhabitants of ancient Greece ; and it was the want of a higher tone of language , suited to the most elevated ...
... sublime attempts at sculpture which arose among the Egyptians , and were afterwards improved upon by the more re- fined inhabitants of ancient Greece ; and it was the want of a higher tone of language , suited to the most elevated ...
Pagina 43
... sublime , by an ideal converse with nature . Having found the ob- jects of his search but seldom , or where they existed , but faintly revealed amongst the children of men , he returns with fresh ardour , and renewed desire to the ...
... sublime , by an ideal converse with nature . Having found the ob- jects of his search but seldom , or where they existed , but faintly revealed amongst the children of men , he returns with fresh ardour , and renewed desire to the ...
Pagina 44
... sublime . The last character under which we shall attempt to describe the poetical nature of grief , is that of pity -- a sentiment so admirably adapted to the relief of the wants and sufferings of humanity , that we regard it as one of ...
... sublime . The last character under which we shall attempt to describe the poetical nature of grief , is that of pity -- a sentiment so admirably adapted to the relief of the wants and sufferings of humanity , that we regard it as one of ...
Pagina 80
... sublime . We now open the Bible , and find that poetry as a principle of intellectual enjoyment derived from association , is also diffused through every page of the sacred volume , and so diffused , that the simplest child , as well as ...
... sublime . We now open the Bible , and find that poetry as a principle of intellectual enjoyment derived from association , is also diffused through every page of the sacred volume , and so diffused , that the simplest child , as well as ...
Pagina 85
... sublime as if an angel wrote the record of the world . Nor is the poetry of the Bible by any means con- fined to those passages in which the power of the Al- mighty is exhibited as operating upon the infant world . The same influence ...
... sublime as if an angel wrote the record of the world . Nor is the poetry of the Bible by any means con- fined to those passages in which the power of the Al- mighty is exhibited as operating upon the infant world . The same influence ...
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Pagina 32 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pagina 156 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Pagina 169 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Pagina 82 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Pagina 102 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall, say, Destroy them.
Pagina 89 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Pagina 153 - 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.
Pagina 101 - The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Pagina 176 - 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 amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Pagina 170 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.