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... regard to the beautiful CHAPTER IV 25 EMOTIONS OF SUBLIMITY . 276. Connexion between beauty and sublimity 277. The occasions of the emotions of sublimity various 278. Great extent or expansion an occasion of sublimity 279. Great height ...
... regard to the beautiful CHAPTER IV 25 EMOTIONS OF SUBLIMITY . 276. Connexion between beauty and sublimity 277. The occasions of the emotions of sublimity various 278. Great extent or expansion an occasion of sublimity 279. Great height ...
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... regard , reverence , and adoration CLASS II . THE DESIRES . CHAPTER I. + ́ NATURE OF DESIRES . Page 314 . 315 316 ib . 317 • ib . 301. Of the prevalence of desire in this department of the mind 302. The nature of desires known from ...
... regard , reverence , and adoration CLASS II . THE DESIRES . CHAPTER I. + ́ NATURE OF DESIRES . Page 314 . 315 316 ib . 317 • ib . 301. Of the prevalence of desire in this department of the mind 302. The nature of desires known from ...
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... regard to persons who have been deaf until a particular period , and then have been restored to the power of hearing , that they have never previously had those ideas which naturally come in by that sense . If a person has been born ...
... regard to persons who have been deaf until a particular period , and then have been restored to the power of hearing , that they have never previously had those ideas which naturally come in by that sense . If a person has been born ...
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... regard to the mind ; all its acts are of one kind , and what they stand for is of an- other . The mind , in all its feelings and operations , is governed by its own laws , and characterizes its efforts by the essential elements of its ...
... regard to the mind ; all its acts are of one kind , and what they stand for is of an- other . The mind , in all its feelings and operations , is governed by its own laws , and characterizes its efforts by the essential elements of its ...
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... regards of others . This fact is undoubtedly the foundation of the chief encouragement which men have to attempt the in- struction of that numerous and unfortunate class of their fellow - beings . They can form an opinion of what an ...
... regards of others . This fact is undoubtedly the foundation of the chief encouragement which men have to attempt the in- struction of that numerous and unfortunate class of their fellow - beings . They can form an opinion of what an ...
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Page 242 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee : I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind; a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 303 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
Page 103 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 182 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 310 - The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," The imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety ; it sees all things in one, il piti nelV uno.
Page 120 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense...
Page 162 - Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 108 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Page 227 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but if we consult experience we shall find, that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.