The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... application of figures will admit of great variety , according to the nature of the subject , and the management of them must be suited to the taste and apprehension of the people , to whom they are addressed , yet , in some way or ...
... application of figures will admit of great variety , according to the nature of the subject , and the management of them must be suited to the taste and apprehension of the people , to whom they are addressed , yet , in some way or ...
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... application of poetry among all nations . It is every where of the most early growth , preceding every other sort of composition ; and being destined for the ear , that is , to be either sung , or at least recited , it adapts itself ...
... application of poetry among all nations . It is every where of the most early growth , preceding every other sort of composition ; and being destined for the ear , that is , to be either sung , or at least recited , it adapts itself ...
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... application of such methods , as each particular language allows , becomes a necessary part of his office . He will only cultivate those methods most , which tend to produce , in a given language , the most harmonious structure or ...
... application of such methods , as each particular language allows , becomes a necessary part of his office . He will only cultivate those methods most , which tend to produce , in a given language , the most harmonious structure or ...
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... application of examples , and the neglect of them , may be well enough expected from the same men , since it does not appear that their judgment was employed , or the reason of the thing attended to , in either instance . And THUS much ...
... application of examples , and the neglect of them , may be well enough expected from the same men , since it does not appear that their judgment was employed , or the reason of the thing attended to , in either instance . And THUS much ...
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... application of this term even to such expression of the manners , as is perfectly serious ; that is , where the quality represented is entirely , and without the least touch of attending ridicule , the object of moral appro- bation to ...
... application of this term even to such expression of the manners , as is perfectly serious ; that is , where the quality represented is entirely , and without the least touch of attending ridicule , the object of moral appro- bation to ...
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Página 246 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Página 258 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 245 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become • A kneaded clod...
Página 274 - May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd...
Página 247 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 292 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 258 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 249 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Página 277 - Than reason above beasts before ; Virtue was thy life's centre, and from thence Did silently and constantly dispense The gentle vigorous influence To all the wide and fair circumference...
Página 284 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.