Letters to John Aikin, M. D.: On His Volume of Vocal Poetry: and on His "Essays on Song-writing; with a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical Merit" ... to which are Added a Collection of Songs Rev. and Altered by the Editor; with Some Original Songs |
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... light as the writing the volume itself . To the name of POET , taken in its highest sense , as including brilliant and forcible imagination and highly polished and ornamented diction , I do not aspire . My aim has been to give good ...
... light as the writing the volume itself . To the name of POET , taken in its highest sense , as including brilliant and forcible imagination and highly polished and ornamented diction , I do not aspire . My aim has been to give good ...
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... light , a double mean- ing , an action , or a look , may raise ideas and corrupt the heart infinitely more than much plainer terms . This I conceive to be the case with those passages in the sacred writings which give offence to some ...
... light , a double mean- ing , an action , or a look , may raise ideas and corrupt the heart infinitely more than much plainer terms . This I conceive to be the case with those passages in the sacred writings which give offence to some ...
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... light of that which is really in itself a sin , or facilitates the approaches to it , whether it be by giving pal- liating or favourable names to sins , or by witty turns to lessen our abhorrence of them , or even to recommend them ...
... light of that which is really in itself a sin , or facilitates the approaches to it , whether it be by giving pal- liating or favourable names to sins , or by witty turns to lessen our abhorrence of them , or even to recommend them ...
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... light of an heroic action . After mentioning these , and adverting to some French metrical pieces , you say , ( p . xvii . ) that " we are now got beyond ` the limits of song properly so called , since it is evident that a great number ...
... light of an heroic action . After mentioning these , and adverting to some French metrical pieces , you say , ( p . xvii . ) that " we are now got beyond ` the limits of song properly so called , since it is evident that a great number ...
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... light of one likely to receive forgiveness . Or , more strictly , no penitence except what may be conjectured from this , that she " cast her eyes to heaven " . Now a person may do this with various sensations . Lady Randolph , in the ...
... light of one likely to receive forgiveness . Or , more strictly , no penitence except what may be conjectured from this , that she " cast her eyes to heaven " . Now a person may do this with various sensations . Lady Randolph , in the ...
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Popular passages
Page xxv - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; 9.
Page 278 - The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things ; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 345 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us ; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are : then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are ; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Page 200 - And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts : but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 243 - What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
Page 440 - BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations bow with sacred joy ; Know that the Lord is God alone, He can create, and he destroy.
Page 439 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 192 - This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Page 246 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Page 429 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.