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
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 418 páginas
...of his pictures seem, like Turkey carpets, to have bean expressly designed not to resemble anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in...Etherege and •Vanbrugh are bad enough. Those of Smollett are perhaps worse. But they do not approach to the Celadons, the Wildbloods, the Woodafls,... | |
| James Rush - 1865 - 488 páginas
...metaphysical belief: and though it is not our purpose here, to question the power of spiritualism elsewhere in the Heavens above, in the Earth beneath, or in the Waters under the Earthj which we have not investigated^ we have assumed to exclude it from all agency in the human mind:... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1865 - 572 páginas
...Cephalaspeans, he has merely given, instead, the likeness of things that never were " in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." The place in the geologic scale, as certainly as the forms and characters, of these ancient fishes had... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 páginas
...of his pictures seem, like Turkey carpets, to have been expressly designed not to resemble anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in...of Etherege and Vanbrugh are bad enough. Those of Smollett are perhaps worse. But they do not approach to the Caledons, the Wildbloods, the Woodalls,... | |
| 1867 - 692 páginas
...struggle of regret, are conclusions which have the merit of having nothing like them in Heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. The simple narrative declares, that Christ was tempted from •without. Satan was not incarnate in the... | |
| 1905 - 358 páginas
...regarded the members of the faculty as freaks fearfully and wonderfully made, unlike anything in heaven above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, themselves therefore not debarred by the commandment from falling down and worshipping them, if they... | |
| 1869 - 300 páginas
...The Great Nebula in Orion ;" but we unhesitatingly assert that it bears no resemblance to any object in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, known to mankind. But with this our fault-finding ceases, and simply because there is really nothing... | |
| 1869 - 1098 páginas
...species. So we see that there is no equality, no sameness, no perfect identity between any. two objects in the heavens above, in the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth. In the animal kingdom, in the vegetable, in the mineral, each individual is perfectly distinct •... | |
| George Zabriskie Gray - 1870 - 276 páginas
...they come up to none of the requisites of the second commandment in regard to resembling anything " in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." But still the scene before one is attractive, as he stands on the old stone bridge by which the main... | |
| George Zabriskie Gray - 1872 - 260 páginas
...they come up to none of the requisites of the second commandment in regard to resembling anything " in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." But still the scene before one is attractive, as he stands on the old stone bridge by which the main... | |
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