On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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Page 19
... sublime the passage where a mighty angel is repre- sented as standing with one foot on the sea , the other on the land , and with his hand stretched towards heaven ; or that other passage where St. John repre- sents himself as beholding ...
... sublime the passage where a mighty angel is repre- sented as standing with one foot on the sea , the other on the land , and with his hand stretched towards heaven ; or that other passage where St. John repre- sents himself as beholding ...
Page 51
... sublime : how beautiful , Elian has informed us ; and how sublime , we may imagine from what is related by Livy ; who assures us that when the Roman army was marching over one of the mountain passes leading to it , the soldiers were ...
... sublime : how beautiful , Elian has informed us ; and how sublime , we may imagine from what is related by Livy ; who assures us that when the Roman army was marching over one of the mountain passes leading to it , the soldiers were ...
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... sublime the imagination has ever figured to the mind . There is , I believe , nothing equal to it in the whole compass of human thought . Shakspeare , too , has shown himself not only a master of the sublime , but also of the pathetic ...
... sublime the imagination has ever figured to the mind . There is , I believe , nothing equal to it in the whole compass of human thought . Shakspeare , too , has shown himself not only a master of the sublime , but also of the pathetic ...
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