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... truth ; added to which , they exhibit specimens of the higher branches of compo- sition , unparalleled in any other productions , ancient or modern ; and some monarch's li- brary , or some national museum , is destined to become the ...
... truth ; added to which , they exhibit specimens of the higher branches of compo- sition , unparalleled in any other productions , ancient or modern ; and some monarch's li- brary , or some national museum , is destined to become the ...
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... truth ? Why easiness of access , and facility of comprehension , should derogate from intrinsic merit ? Why figures , and epithets , and harmony of language , - why narrative , and poetry , and history , and allegory , should delight ...
... truth ? Why easiness of access , and facility of comprehension , should derogate from intrinsic merit ? Why figures , and epithets , and harmony of language , - why narrative , and poetry , and history , and allegory , should delight ...
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... Truth she relates in a sublimer strain , Than all the tales the boldest Greeks could feign ; For what she sung that spirit did indite , Which gave her courage and success in fight . " isted , that the saints were indeed what they are 6 ...
... Truth she relates in a sublimer strain , Than all the tales the boldest Greeks could feign ; For what she sung that spirit did indite , Which gave her courage and success in fight . " isted , that the saints were indeed what they are 6 ...
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... truth . This imparts peculiar solemnity to the im- maginative parts of scripture , and reminds me of Cowley's remark , that " there is not so great a falsehood in any poet , as the vul- gar conceit of men , that lying is essential to ...
... truth . This imparts peculiar solemnity to the im- maginative parts of scripture , and reminds me of Cowley's remark , that " there is not so great a falsehood in any poet , as the vul- gar conceit of men , that lying is essential to ...
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... truth , even deficient acquaint- ance with the historical arrangement , and yet he will have this feeling of familiarity — dif- ficult to lose , and otherwise impossible to account for . The free perusal of the scriptures , as re ...
... truth , even deficient acquaint- ance with the historical arrangement , and yet he will have this feeling of familiarity — dif- ficult to lose , and otherwise impossible to account for . The free perusal of the scriptures , as re ...
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Page 115 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Page 238 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 239 - And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day : And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 15 - And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.
Page 51 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
Page 30 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Page 100 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 22 - But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Page 23 - Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel ? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Page 187 - Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.