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... never fails to be punished with shame and remorse . 7 Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority over reason . Philo- sophers anciently avere divided into sects , being Epicureans , Plato- nists , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics ...
... never fails to be punished with shame and remorse . 7 Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority over reason . Philo- sophers anciently avere divided into sects , being Epicureans , Plato- nists , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics ...
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... never once descending to gratify any of the inferior senses . The design , accordingly , of this chapter , is to delineate that connection , with the view chiefly to ascertain what power the fine arts have to raise emotions and passions ...
... never once descending to gratify any of the inferior senses . The design , accordingly , of this chapter , is to delineate that connection , with the view chiefly to ascertain what power the fine arts have to raise emotions and passions ...
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... never abstracts ; by that organ we per- ceive things as they really exist , and never perceive a quality as separated from the subject . Hence it must be evident , that emotions are raised , not by qualities abstractly considered , but ...
... never abstracts ; by that organ we per- ceive things as they really exist , and never perceive a quality as separated from the subject . Hence it must be evident , that emotions are raised , not by qualities abstractly considered , but ...
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... never is the object of desire . No man in his right senses desires to walk on the clouds , or to descend to the centre of the earth we may amuse ourselves in a reverie , with building castles in the air , and wishing for what can never ...
... never is the object of desire . No man in his right senses desires to walk on the clouds , or to descend to the centre of the earth we may amuse ourselves in a reverie , with building castles in the air , and wishing for what can never ...
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... never employ hirelings , but each man sings in his turn . They are also taught all the military steps and * See Chapter 24 . motions to the sound of instruments , which they perform Part 1. ] 35 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
... never employ hirelings , but each man sings in his turn . They are also taught all the military steps and * See Chapter 24 . motions to the sound of instruments , which they perform Part 1. ] 35 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
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Página 143 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 371 - And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up, And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Página 397 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 112 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 445 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 406 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 405 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Página 226 - I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ; They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh : But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool ; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
Página 388 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 377 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.