The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... of its images ; many of which excel the utmost efforts of the most exalted genius of Greece . " At the appearance of God , the mountains and VOL . II . D the forests do not only tremble as in Homer , 51 . 25 ADVENTURER .
... of its images ; many of which excel the utmost efforts of the most exalted genius of Greece . " At the appearance of God , the mountains and VOL . II . D the forests do not only tremble as in Homer , 51 . 25 ADVENTURER .
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... image or description in Plato himself , so truly ele- vated and divine ! Where did these barbarians learn to speak of God in terms that alone appear worthy of him ? How contemptible and vile are the deities of Homer and Hesiod , in ...
... image or description in Plato himself , so truly ele- vated and divine ! Where did these barbarians learn to speak of God in terms that alone appear worthy of him ? How contemptible and vile are the deities of Homer and Hesiod , in ...
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... images , by which a writer seems to behold objects that are absent , or even nonex- istent , contribute to the true ... image : Jehovah , ' the tutelar God of the Jews , opened the eyes of the young man , and he saw ; and behold , the ...
... images , by which a writer seems to behold objects that are absent , or even nonex- istent , contribute to the true ... image : Jehovah , ' the tutelar God of the Jews , opened the eyes of the young man , and he saw ; and behold , the ...
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... image is heightened by a Jewish author , who describes Hell , or Hades , as 6 an enormous monster , who hath extended and en- larged himself , and opened his insatiable mouth without measure . ' " Cassandra , in Eschylus , struck with ...
... image is heightened by a Jewish author , who describes Hell , or Hades , as 6 an enormous monster , who hath extended and en- larged himself , and opened his insatiable mouth without measure . ' " Cassandra , in Eschylus , struck with ...
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... images . Homer and the Hebrew bards disdain minute resemblances , and seek not an exact correspondence with every feature of the object they introduce . Provided a general likeness appear , they think it sufficient . Not solicitous for ...
... images . Homer and the Hebrew bards disdain minute resemblances , and seek not an exact correspondence with every feature of the object they introduce . Provided a general likeness appear , they think it sufficient . Not solicitous for ...
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absurd acquainted admiration ADVENTURER Agrestis Amana Amelia Anticlea appear Aristotle bagnio Bagshot beauty behold believe Boileau caliph captain character coach conceal conduct consider contempt countenance daugh death Demosthenes desire dignity discovered distress dreadful effect elegance equally Eugenio Euripides Eutyches excellence eyes falsehood father favour felicity folly fortune Freeman genius gratified guilt hand happiness heart Homer honour hope human husband Iliad images imagination immediately kind labour Lady Forrest learned Longinus looked mankind Mantua ment mind misery morning nature ness never Nouraddin object Odyssey opinion Osmin passion perceived perhaps person Pindar pleasure poem poet Pope present produced prosopopoeia punished Quintilian racter reason received SATURDAY says scarce sentiment servant Sir James soon Sophocles soul specta spirit stockjobber suffered tain tears tenderness Theocritus thou thought Tibullus tion truth TUESDAY ulmo Ulysses vanity Ventosus vice virtue wife wish wretched writers
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Página 126 - ... with some other prey. But this is only one of the innumerable artifices practised in the universal conspiracy of mankind against themselves ; every age and every condition indulges some darling fallacy ; every man amuses himself with projects which he knows to be improbable, and which, therefore, he resolves to pursue without daring to examine them. Whatever any man ardently desires, he very readily believes that he shall some time attain : he whose intemperance has overwhelmed him with diseases,...