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... beautiful " which is concrete , but the combined adjective and substantive " beautiful object , " which the word concrete was invented to denote . It seems impossible for us to conceive " The Long " in the abstract , ( adjective without ...
... beautiful " which is concrete , but the combined adjective and substantive " beautiful object , " which the word concrete was invented to denote . It seems impossible for us to conceive " The Long " in the abstract , ( adjective without ...
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... maintains that Terror is the chief source of whatever is Sublime , Pleasure of the Beautiful . In the sight of terrible objects there is an excitement of mind , which , if not carried too far , elevates and gratifies . F 2 67.
... maintains that Terror is the chief source of whatever is Sublime , Pleasure of the Beautiful . In the sight of terrible objects there is an excitement of mind , which , if not carried too far , elevates and gratifies . F 2 67.
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... beautiful objects are naturally in outward contrast . The sublime is ordinarily vast , as a moun- tain or the sea ; the beautiful , of moderate compass . Strength predominates in the one , delicacy in the other . A bear is grander than ...
... beautiful objects are naturally in outward contrast . The sublime is ordinarily vast , as a moun- tain or the sea ; the beautiful , of moderate compass . Strength predominates in the one , delicacy in the other . A bear is grander than ...
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... beautiful , viz . , the terrible and the lovely . While we shudder at evil passion , it cannot make us worse . Demo- ralization begins , when we learn to sympathize with it , or to dwell on things over which it is healthful to step ...
... beautiful , viz . , the terrible and the lovely . While we shudder at evil passion , it cannot make us worse . Demo- ralization begins , when we learn to sympathize with it , or to dwell on things over which it is healthful to step ...
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... beautiful poetry concerning persons unknown to them , or concerning that which they knew to be entirely fictitious . Had not such a phenomenon as WALTER SCOTT appeared , I should have been tempted to lay down that by the rise of prose ...
... beautiful poetry concerning persons unknown to them , or concerning that which they knew to be entirely fictitious . Had not such a phenomenon as WALTER SCOTT appeared , I should have been tempted to lay down that by the rise of prose ...
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ÆSCHYLUS AGATHOCLES Analogy ancient antiquity Arabs argument army assembly Assyrian Athenian Athens Babylon barbarians beautiful become believe CÆSAR Cæsura called Carthage Carthaginians character chief citizens civilized colonies commerce concerning conquered consuls cultivated definition doctrine of Chances Egypt Egyptian elected empire English Epic equal fact force foreign give Greece Greek HANNIBAL Hebrew hence HERODOTUS HOMER honour horse human ILIAD imagination India Induction infer interest king land language Latin LECTURE less limits loan logic mean ment Mesopotamia metaphor metre military mind modern moral nation natural never Nevertheless Nineveh noble perhaps Persian Phoenicians plebeians poem poet poetical poetry POLYBIUS Prætor priests probably proposition prose Punic reason REESE LIBRARY religion religious republic Roman Roman republic Rome savage Scythians seems Senate sense Sicily slaves suppose Syllogism taxes thing tion tribes verbal truth vote whole words
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Page 113 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Page 109 - For all behind was dark and drear, And all before was night and fear. How many hours of night or day In those suspended pangs I lay, I could not tell ; I scarcely knew If this were human breath I drew.
Page 135 - Moored in the rifted rock, Proof to the tempest's shock, Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow; Menteith and Breadalbane, then, Echo his praise agen, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!
Page 131 - They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn: The tree will wither long before it fall ; The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn; The roof-tree sinks, but moulders on the hall In massy hoariness; the...
Page 138 - With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon ; Restless it rolls, now fix'd and now anon Flashing afar, — and at his iron feet Destruction cowers, to mark what deeds are done ; For on this morn three potent nations meet, To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.
Page 129 - But Thou wilt heal that broken heart, Which, like the plants that throw Their fragrance from the wounded part, Breathes sweetness out of woe.
Page 116 - To town and tower, to down and dale, To tell red Flodden's dismal tale, And raise the universal wail. Tradition, legend, tune, and song, Shall many an age that wail prolong: Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, Where shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield ! XXXV.
Page 81 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 136 - This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 326 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems...