The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 61R. Griffiths, 1780 - Books |
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... idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford . This effect proceeds from the difplay of thofe parts of nature which attract , and the concealment of thofe which repel the imagination : but religion must be fhewn as it is ...
... idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford . This effect proceeds from the difplay of thofe parts of nature which attract , and the concealment of thofe which repel the imagination : but religion must be fhewn as it is ...
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... ideas of Chriftian Theo- logy are too fimple for eloquence , too facred for fiction , and too ma- jeltic for ornament ... idea of Fenton's still farther , afferting that , though judgment may retain its vigour to a more diftant period ...
... ideas of Chriftian Theo- logy are too fimple for eloquence , too facred for fiction , and too ma- jeltic for ornament ... idea of Fenton's still farther , afferting that , though judgment may retain its vigour to a more diftant period ...
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... idea of that noble fimplicity of nature , which art has in vain attempted to reach . London is feen in the distance , where the eye may diftinctly trace St. Paul's , the Tower , Westminster - abbey , and many parish churches , forming a ...
... idea of that noble fimplicity of nature , which art has in vain attempted to reach . London is feen in the distance , where the eye may diftinctly trace St. Paul's , the Tower , Westminster - abbey , and many parish churches , forming a ...
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... ideas equally ap- plicable to all ranks and opinions , from the monarch to the beggar , whether believers or fceptics , it being impoffible to walk over a spot of ground , every yard of which covers the remains of a human being , once ...
... ideas equally ap- plicable to all ranks and opinions , from the monarch to the beggar , whether believers or fceptics , it being impoffible to walk over a spot of ground , every yard of which covers the remains of a human being , once ...
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... idea of perfection , may we not en- quire , whether a curious eye may not difcern fome faults , even in thofe great men ? ' meaning Pouffin and Le Seur . Thus , for the fake of introducing a remark on the works of these French painters ...
... idea of perfection , may we not en- quire , whether a curious eye may not difcern fome faults , even in thofe great men ? ' meaning Pouffin and Le Seur . Thus , for the fake of introducing a remark on the works of these French painters ...
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Page 9 - Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of" his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.
Page 85 - But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reasonableness of...
Page 90 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Page 3 - If, by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new; that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.
Page 9 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved.
Page 3 - that which has been often thought, but was never before so well expressed," they certainly never attained nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts, and were careless of their diction. But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous ; he...
Page 88 - ... of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen woman praying to a heathen god ?" The papers which the king gave to Dr.
Page 4 - It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
Page 89 - ... read for pleasure or accomplishment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively small. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakspeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies.
Page 341 - Any one of these four principles above mentioned (and a hundred others which lie open to our conjecture) may afford us a theory by which to judge of the origin of the world; and it is a palpable and egregious partiality to confine our view entirely to that principle by which our own minds operate.