The New-York Review, Volume 4George Dearborn & Company, 1839 |
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... light of philosophy is needed to guide us over a tract where a thousand paths are open to mislead ; nay , more , we want some rays from a higher fountain of light to reveal how holy a thing the power of a poet is , and to win us from ...
... light of philosophy is needed to guide us over a tract where a thousand paths are open to mislead ; nay , more , we want some rays from a higher fountain of light to reveal how holy a thing the power of a poet is , and to win us from ...
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... light of truth was in his heart , " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity , morality , and to delectation . And , therefore , it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness , because it doth raise and erect the mind , by ...
... light of truth was in his heart , " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity , morality , and to delectation . And , therefore , it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness , because it doth raise and erect the mind , by ...
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... light than all the chronicles can give ? What fa- culty but imagination could take the skeleton of some old tradi- tion - the dry bones of some mouldering legend , and clothe them with flesh and blood , and give them life ? Or when pass ...
... light than all the chronicles can give ? What fa- culty but imagination could take the skeleton of some old tradi- tion - the dry bones of some mouldering legend , and clothe them with flesh and blood , and give them life ? Or when pass ...
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... light upon it . Every one is not formed to read the inscriptions which are written , how- ever clearly , on all the objects of creation ..... Genius walks forth arrayed in light , and throws forth its beams on every side . From whatever ...
... light upon it . Every one is not formed to read the inscriptions which are written , how- ever clearly , on all the objects of creation ..... Genius walks forth arrayed in light , and throws forth its beams on every side . From whatever ...
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... light than man's philosophy can strike to dispel it . All that we humanly know is , that the creations of poetry in all ages have found in the breast of man something congenial , though in the world around us we may search in vain for ...
... light than man's philosophy can strike to dispel it . All that we humanly know is , that the creations of poetry in all ages have found in the breast of man something congenial , though in the world around us we may search in vain for ...
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