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As in a building the pillars should be placed where the greatest supports are
required , and the ornaments should be exhibited where they will produce the
most striking effect ; so in a poem of the didactic nature , the arguments should be
...
As in a building the pillars should be placed where the greatest supports are
required , and the ornaments should be exhibited where they will produce the
most striking effect ; so in a poem of the didactic nature , the arguments should be
...
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his judgment in introducing only those whom he thought would prove striking and
confirming examples of the doctrines which he has advanced . The notes have
been added to explain passages which may be doubtful , and to support general
...
his judgment in introducing only those whom he thought would prove striking and
confirming examples of the doctrines which he has advanced . The notes have
been added to explain passages which may be doubtful , and to support general
...
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His representations are commonly striking : I need only instance his picture of
Omai - - - the Woodman and his Dog - - - Crazy Kate - - and Mysagathus . - - - His
principal faults are bis want of connection throughout his poem , and his not ...
His representations are commonly striking : I need only instance his picture of
Omai - - - the Woodman and his Dog - - - Crazy Kate - - and Mysagathus . - - - His
principal faults are bis want of connection throughout his poem , and his not ...
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I shall notice some , which are the most striking - - - Cicero , the first name on the
page of antiquity , failed in his attempts at poetry . - - Archimedes , whose name
may stand for a large class devoted to mathematics , had little taste for any other
...
I shall notice some , which are the most striking - - - Cicero , the first name on the
page of antiquity , failed in his attempts at poetry . - - Archimedes , whose name
may stand for a large class devoted to mathematics , had little taste for any other
...
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he told them the plain truth from the scriptures ; and presented that truth in the
most striking colours . Notwithstanding the eulogy I have passed upon Massillon
and his unrivalled excellence in his addresses to the heart , I am far from thinking
...
he told them the plain truth from the scriptures ; and presented that truth in the
most striking colours . Notwithstanding the eulogy I have passed upon Massillon
and his unrivalled excellence in his addresses to the heart , I am far from thinking
...
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Էջ 87 - stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than
Էջ 14 - And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. Bernardo... .Last night of all, When yon same star that's westward from the pole, Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus, and myself, The bell then beating one--- Marctllus... .Peace, break thee off,
Էջ 87 - Job xxviii. 20, 22, 23. Whence then cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding? 22, Destruction and Death say, we have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 23, God understandeth the way thereof, for he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven."—
Էջ 88 - out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. Sing unto God ye kingdoms of the Earth: O sing praises unto the Lord : To him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens which were of old;
Էջ 110 - In our little journey up to the grand chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes
Էջ 99 - to my foe; Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle; Under whose shade the ramping lion slept; Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from Winter's powerful wind.
Էջ 10 - care not Fortune what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Thro* which Aurora
Էջ 98 - So to night-wand'ring sailors pale with fears, Wide o'er the watry waste a light appears, Which on the far-seen mountain blazing high, Streams from some lonely watch-tower to the sky : With mournful eyes they gaze and gaze again: Loud howls the storm and drives them o'er the main. Next his high head the helmet
Էջ 11 - the ear was mistress of their powers No Bard could please me but whose lyre was tun'd To nature's Praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigu'd me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus, assembling as he
Էջ 86 - Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
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| Վերնագիր | The Powers of Genius, a poem. (Illustrations of Genius from authors, ... attached to the poem in an appendix.) |
| Հեղինակ | John Blair Linn |
| Հրատարակիչ | Albion Press: : Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy Lane, for T. Williams, Stationers' Court, and T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row, 1804 |
| Original from | Նյու Յորքի Հանրային գրադարան |
| Digitized | 5 Հոկտեմբեր 2006 |
| Length | 155 էջ |
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