Literary Characteristics and Achievements of the BiblePoe & Hitchcock, 1863 - 368 страница |
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... reason , the objects of perception , the reminiscences of memory , and the anticipations of hope , it may be questioned whether the exercises of these faculties would long be tolerable . But assign to imagination its due place among the ...
... reason , the objects of perception , the reminiscences of memory , and the anticipations of hope , it may be questioned whether the exercises of these faculties would long be tolerable . But assign to imagination its due place among the ...
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... reason , was inspired in these writers . Second , if God availed himself of the imaginative faculty of the writers in the composition of the Scriptures , he certainly must have intended the same faculty to be used in the perusal of them ...
... reason , was inspired in these writers . Second , if God availed himself of the imaginative faculty of the writers in the composition of the Scriptures , he certainly must have intended the same faculty to be used in the perusal of them ...
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... reasons , that the ease of nature surpasses the efforts of art . Some of Isaiah's lyric outbursts ; or Job's mag- nificent sketches , dashed off with a master's rapid hand ; or David's occasional hymns , written with " the pen of a ...
... reasons , that the ease of nature surpasses the efforts of art . Some of Isaiah's lyric outbursts ; or Job's mag- nificent sketches , dashed off with a master's rapid hand ; or David's occasional hymns , written with " the pen of a ...
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... much on the principle of contrast , while the ordinary artist does not risk the same bold treatment ? The reason is obvious . The ordinary artist paints on a small scale , having to fill but a few yards of THE STYLE OF THE SCRIPTURES . 49.
... much on the principle of contrast , while the ordinary artist does not risk the same bold treatment ? The reason is obvious . The ordinary artist paints on a small scale , having to fill but a few yards of THE STYLE OF THE SCRIPTURES . 49.
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... reason ; but with regard to this remarkable composition , besides the explanation already offered , it ought to be kept in view that without a certain air of extravagance it could not be what it professes - a song of love . I venture to ...
... reason ; but with regard to this remarkable composition , besides the explanation already offered , it ought to be kept in view that without a certain air of extravagance it could not be what it professes - a song of love . I venture to ...
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