any thing in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. - The latter manner he practises most frequently in his tragedies, the former in his comedies. The comic characters are, without mixture, loathsome and despicable.... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 128por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Hutchins - 1827 - 476 páginas
...creation, sustaining, at the same time, by his presence, and preserving by his power all things, whether in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. We proceed now, to the last article in this portion of the Apostles' Creed, which respects our belief... | |
| Samuel Green - 1827 - 292 páginas
...itself is naked before him, and destruction has no covering; neither is there any creature in heaven above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, that is not manifest in his sight: all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we... | |
| Jean François M. Le Pappe de Trévern (bp. of Strassburg.) - 1828 - 402 páginas
...the making of " any " graven thing, or the likeness of any thing that is in " the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the ." waters under the earth;" the other, prohibiting us to " adore or serve them ;" or as the Protestant Scripture has it, " to bow down... | |
| 1829 - 430 páginas
...their mirth and the exercise of their imagination. The difficulty among them is to discover, to what in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or, in the waters under the earth, Charley can with propriety be compared. He has been, successively, likened to patience on a monument;... | |
| Abiel Abbot - 1829 - 286 páginas
...images, not strictly forbidden by the letter of the commandment, being like nothing in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. The first part of the distance to St Jago had the appearance of extensive gardens for the furnishing the... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 508 páginas
...skill. For most of his pictures seem, like Turkey carpels, to have been expressly designed not to ramble any thing in the heavens above, in the earth beneath,...without mixture, loathsome and despicable. The men of Ethcrcge and Vanbrugh are bad enough. Those of Smollett are perhaps worse. But they do not approach... | |
| Robert Folkestone Williams - 1835 - 884 páginas
...appearance, the admiration of the world. I am a worshipper of beauty wherever I find it. Whether ' in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.' I admire the starry things that pave the skies with their everlasting radiance — the many-coloured... | |
| Robert Folkestone Williams - 1835 - 242 páginas
...that divine appearance, the admua&otv arn a worshipper of beauty wherever I find it. Whether 1 in (lie heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.' I admire the starry things that pave the skies with their everlasting radiance—the many-coloured... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 páginas
...put together on principle, in such a manner as to give no image of an; thing in the "heavensabove, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." The poem on the Omnipresence of the Deity commences with a description of the creation, in which we can... | |
| William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - 1842 - 434 páginas
...found. And what are too many of our biographies but likenesses of nothing which is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth ? The true idea of a memoir is, that it shall impart the general and combined impression of its subject,... | |
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