 Phalerion, a painter, celebrated for his nervous representation of the awful and the tremendous, exerted his whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth, and if we are to receive the fine imagery, that places...  Mechanics Magazine - Page 461827Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...awful and the tremendous, exerted his whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth, and if we are to receive...the whole circle of mythological dogmas of Homer, who, though so frequently dragged forth as an authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1824 - 728 pages
...awful and the tremenilons, exerted his whole talent. But the flights cf poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth, and if we are to receive...the whole circle of mythological dogmas of Homer, who, though so frequently dragged forth as ma authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography,... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Geology - 1824 - 440 pages
...awful and the tremendous, exerted his whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth, and if we are to receive...the whole circle of mythological dogmas of Homer, who, though so frequently dragged forth as an authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1824 - 570 pages
...awful and the tremendous, exerted his whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth, and if we are to receive...the whole circle of mythological dogmas of Homer, who, though so frequently dragged forth as an authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography,... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...name : mendous, exerted hi» whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be lhackled by homely truth, and if we are to receive the fine...the whole circle of mythological dogmas of Homer, who, though so frequently dragged forth as an authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography,... | |
 | 1824 - 612 pages
...terrific colours. But the flight of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth ; and if we arc to receive the fine imagery that places the summit of this rock in clouds brooding (over) eternal mists and tempests ; that represents it as inaccessible to a man provided with twenty... | |
 | Science - 1825 - 470 pages
...awful and the tremendous, exerted his whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth ; and if we are to receive...the whole circle of mythological dogmas of Homer, who, though so frequently dragged forth as an authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 590 pages
...awful and the tremendous, exerted his whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth ; and if we are to receive...eternal mists and tempests; that represents it as inacceptable even to a man provided with, twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 452 pages
...awful and the tremendous, exerted his whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth, and if we are to receive...the whole circle of mythological dogmas of Homer, who, though so frequently dragged forth as an authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography,... | |
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