The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Svazek 2Perkins & Marvin, 1836 |
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Strana 30
... Bible , by being translated , has preserved among us some elements of orientalism , we should this day scarcely be capable of holding intercourse with more than half our race . The most literal translations would only throw darkness ...
... Bible , by being translated , has preserved among us some elements of orientalism , we should this day scarcely be capable of holding intercourse with more than half our race . The most literal translations would only throw darkness ...
Strana 31
... Hebrew poets with a standard formed in modern times , he will be greatly disappointed . Much has been said of the beauties of the Bible ; nor are we aware that its beauties have been overrated . But loosely THE PURITAN . 31.
... Hebrew poets with a standard formed in modern times , he will be greatly disappointed . Much has been said of the beauties of the Bible ; nor are we aware that its beauties have been overrated . But loosely THE PURITAN . 31.
Strana 32
... Bible , some fond critics have laid a snare for the reader's dissent . The Bible is beautiful like most other primitive books , in its own peculiar style of beauty . It has those very beauties which a nascent age produces , and of which ...
... Bible , some fond critics have laid a snare for the reader's dissent . The Bible is beautiful like most other primitive books , in its own peculiar style of beauty . It has those very beauties which a nascent age produces , and of which ...
Strana 33
A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous Leonard Withington. the Bible should have these modern manners , than that the Jordan or the Euphrates , should reflect the trees or the shrubbery on the banks of the Ohio or the Tweed ...
A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous Leonard Withington. the Bible should have these modern manners , than that the Jordan or the Euphrates , should reflect the trees or the shrubbery on the banks of the Ohio or the Tweed ...
Strana 42
... biblical poetry , like all the severe beauties , must be acquired by study . They are so simple , so unlike modern sentimentalism , that , when first seen , they strike the eye with disap- pointment . But look again , and your attention ...
... biblical poetry , like all the severe beauties , must be acquired by study . They are so simple , so unlike modern sentimentalism , that , when first seen , they strike the eye with disap- pointment . But look again , and your attention ...
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Strana 214 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 25 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Strana 57 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Strana 53 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Strana 58 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Strana 250 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow...
Strana 54 - We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.
Strana 178 - And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Strana 229 - King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear, With that he call'd the tailor lown. He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree: Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Strana 37 - Rocks, dens, and caves ! But I in none of these Find place or refuge ; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel...
Strana 106 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.