Specimens of the Table TalkJ. Grant, 1905 - 351 страници |
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... Religion 332 Devotional Spirit . 305 Euthanasia 333 Sectarianism 307 Recollections by Mr. Justice Origen 307 Coleridge 334 Some Men like Musical Glasses 307 Address to a Godchild 342 Sublime and Nonsense • 307 xxxii CONTENTS .
... Religion 332 Devotional Spirit . 305 Euthanasia 333 Sectarianism 307 Recollections by Mr. Justice Origen 307 Coleridge 334 Some Men like Musical Glasses 307 Address to a Godchild 342 Sublime and Nonsense • 307 xxxii CONTENTS .
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... Sublime ; * to produce an effect , he sets you a whole town on fire , and throws infants with their mothers into the flames , or locks up a father in an old tower . But Shakspeare drops a handkerchief , and the same or greater effects ...
... Sublime ; * to produce an effect , he sets you a whole town on fire , and throws infants with their mothers into the flames , or locks up a father in an old tower . But Shakspeare drops a handkerchief , and the same or greater effects ...
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... sublime ; and pray mark the swan - like movement of his exqui- site Prothalamion . * His attention to metre and rhythm is sometimes so extremely minute as to be painful even to my ear , and you know how highly I prize good versification ...
... sublime ; and pray mark the swan - like movement of his exqui- site Prothalamion . * His attention to metre and rhythm is sometimes so extremely minute as to be painful even to my ear , and you know how highly I prize good versification ...
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... Sublime and Beautiful seems to me a poor thing ; and what he says upon Taste is neither profound nor accurate . Well ! I am for Ariosto against Tasso ; though I would rather praise Ariosto's poetry than his poem . I wish our clever ...
... Sublime and Beautiful seems to me a poor thing ; and what he says upon Taste is neither profound nor accurate . Well ! I am for Ariosto against Tasso ; though I would rather praise Ariosto's poetry than his poem . I wish our clever ...
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... sublime and consolatory to a meditative Christian . Had I been a Papist , I should not have wished for a more vanquishable opponent in controversy . I certainly believe Chillingworth to have been in some sense * I almost forget , but ...
... sublime and consolatory to a meditative Christian . Had I been a Papist , I should not have wished for a more vanquishable opponent in controversy . I certainly believe Chillingworth to have been in some sense * I almost forget , but ...
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Страница 272 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib: But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
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