Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Volume 1Cummings and Hilliard, 1812 - 434 pages |
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Page 109
... significant to us of some affecting or interesting quality of mind . We learn from experience , that cer- tain qualities of mind are signified by certain qualities of body . When we find similar qualities of body in inanimate matter ...
... significant to us of some affecting or interesting quality of mind . We learn from experience , that cer- tain qualities of mind are signified by certain qualities of body . When we find similar qualities of body in inanimate matter ...
Page 111
... significant or expressive to us of very different , and far more interest- ing qualities than those it possesses in itself . By means of the connexion , or resemblance , which subsists between the qualities of matter , and qualities ...
... significant or expressive to us of very different , and far more interest- ing qualities than those it possesses in itself . By means of the connexion , or resemblance , which subsists between the qualities of matter , and qualities ...
Page 124
... significant , II . There is a great variety of sounds also , that occur in the scenes of nature , which are productive of the emo- tion of BEAUTY ; the sound of a waterfall , the murmur- ing of a rivulet , the whispering of the wind ...
... significant , II . There is a great variety of sounds also , that occur in the scenes of nature , which are productive of the emo- tion of BEAUTY ; the sound of a waterfall , the murmur- ing of a rivulet , the whispering of the wind ...
Page 138
... significant , they immediately cease either to be sublime or beautiful . Every one must have observed that this is the effect of mimickry . Wherever , in the same manner , any spe- cies of deceit is used ; or where we know that these ...
... significant , they immediately cease either to be sublime or beautiful . Every one must have observed that this is the effect of mimickry . Wherever , in the same manner , any spe- cies of deceit is used ; or where we know that these ...
Page 145
... significant , and there is a necessary relation among words , established by the rules of grammar ; yet it is obviously possible to arrange words according to grammatical rules , which yet shall possess no meaning . In the same man- ner ...
... significant , and there is a necessary relation among words , established by the rules of grammar ; yet it is obviously possible to arrange words according to grammatical rules , which yet shall possess no meaning . In the same man- ner ...
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Page 119 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Page 89 - The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees, the linnet's lay of love, And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 89 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Page 39 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school , The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind...
Page 43 - Ocean itself no longer can resist The binding fury; but, in all its rage Of tempest, taken by the boundless frost, Is many a fathom to the bottom chained, And bid to roar no more...
Page 46 - Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks, Bow'd their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer.
Page 39 - The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The...
Page 118 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire ; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came...
Page 119 - The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch: Fire answers fire; and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umber'd face: Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
Page 410 - We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears, and importunate lamentations. But we reverence that reserved, that silent and majestic sorrow, which discovers itself only in the swelling of the eyes, in the quivering of the lips and cheeks, and in the distant, but affecting, coldness of the whole behaviour. It imposes the like silence upon us.