The British Essayists, Volume 20Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 - English essays |
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... Sound to Sense , often chimerical $ 98 . ...... 93. The Prejudices and Caprices of Criticism 94. An Inquiry how far Milton has accom- modated the Sound to the Sense 95. The History of Pertinax the Sceptick .. 96. Truth , Falsehood , and ...
... Sound to Sense , often chimerical $ 98 . ...... 93. The Prejudices and Caprices of Criticism 94. An Inquiry how far Milton has accom- modated the Sound to the Sense 95. The History of Pertinax the Sceptick .. 96. Truth , Falsehood , and ...
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... sounds , but do not understand them . Of this kind is the well - known and well - attested po- sition , that life is short , which may be heard among mankind by an attentive auditor , many times a - day , but which never yet within my ...
... sounds , but do not understand them . Of this kind is the well - known and well - attested po- sition , that life is short , which may be heard among mankind by an attentive auditor , many times a - day , but which never yet within my ...
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... sound infused into the ear . But our ideas are more subjected to choice ; we can call them before us , and command their stay , we can faci- litate and promote their recurrence , we can either re- press their intrusion , or hasten their ...
... sound infused into the ear . But our ideas are more subjected to choice ; we can call them before us , and command their stay , we can faci- litate and promote their recurrence , we can either re- press their intrusion , or hasten their ...
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... sounds , and more affected by the same words in one order than another . The percep- tion of harmony is indeed conferred upon men in de- grees very unequal , but there are none who do not perceive it , or to whom a regular series of ...
... sounds , and more affected by the same words in one order than another . The percep- tion of harmony is indeed conferred upon men in de- grees very unequal , but there are none who do not perceive it , or to whom a regular series of ...
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... sound or percussion at equal times , is the most complete harmony of which a single verse is capable , and should ... sounds untransposed in a long composition , is not only very difficult , but tiresome and disgusting ; for we are soon ...
... sound or percussion at equal times , is the most complete harmony of which a single verse is capable , and should ... sounds untransposed in a long composition , is not only very difficult , but tiresome and disgusting ; for we are soon ...
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Page 34 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Page 208 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 193 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...
Page 64 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope, with gaiety and with diligence, and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest.
Page 62 - Here Obidah paused for a time, and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence, and that the plain was dusty and uneven, he resolved to pursue the new path, which he supposed only to make a few meanders, in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road. Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected he was not gaining ground.
Page 220 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The...
Page 35 - We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Page 63 - At length, not fear, but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude....
Page 193 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 77 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.