| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...the soul to never-fading joy. Ixxtk then abroad through nature, to the range Of plannets, suns, nnd heir sturdy stroke ; Let not ambition mock their useful...and destiny obscure i Nor grandeur hear with a disd majeNty dilate Pliy strung conception, as when Brulus ruse Refulgent from the stroke of C'arsar's fate,... | |
| Hannah More - 1809 - 270 pages
...I may be better able to controvert your criticism: Look then abroad through nature to the range 9f planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense, And speak, oh man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as... | |
| Hannah More - 1810 - 454 pages
...the next passage, however," said Sir John, " that I may be better able to controvert your criticism : Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets,...conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Cxsar's fate Amid the crowd of patriots, and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...(traces ; here enthron'd, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy. Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets,...capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate 491 Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of C'a-sar's täte, Arnid... | |
| Hannah More - 1810 - 504 pages
...the next passage, however,' said Sir John, ' that I may be better able to controvert your criticism.' Look then abroad through nature to the range Of planets,...Wheeling unshaken through the void immense, And speak, oh man! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as... | |
| Hannah More - 1810 - 310 pages
...next passage, however," said Sir John, " that! I may be better able to controvert your criticisms" Look then abroad through nature to the range Of planets,..."Wheeling unshaken through the void immense^ And speak, oh man! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as... | |
| Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 pages
...passage of Akeaside, in his first b0qfc on the " Pleasures of Imagination." " Look then abroad thro* nature to the range " Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, *' Wheeling unshaken in the void immense/* Here, it is not the mere representation of immense space, which constitutes the... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1813 - 296 pages
...and eompared together, in the following beautiful passage of Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination. Look then abroad through nature to the range Of planets,...suns, and adamantine spheres ; Wheeling unshaken, thro' the void immense ; And speak, O Man ! does this eapaeious seene, With half that kindling majesty,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...compared together, in the following beautiful passage of Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination : Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets,...suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling, unshaken, thro' the Toid immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene, With half that kindling majesty... | |
| John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...moral sublime, combined together in their joint operation: ' Look then abroad through nature, through the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling, unshaken, through the vault immense ; And speak, oh man, does this capacious scene, With half that kindling majesty dilate... | |
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