Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... colour , culture is unneceffary . The obfervation holds equally in natural founds , fuch as the finging of birds , or the murmuring of a brook . Nature here , the artificer of the object as well as of the percipient , hath fuited them ...
... colour , culture is unneceffary . The obfervation holds equally in natural founds , fuch as the finging of birds , or the murmuring of a brook . Nature here , the artificer of the object as well as of the percipient , hath fuited them ...
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... colours , occafi- ons a fenfible emotion , as well as when we fee it performed . And when we reflect upon the diftrefs ... colour ftrictly fpeaking that produces the emotion , but the tree as coloured : it is not the figure ab- ftractly ...
... colours , occafi- ons a fenfible emotion , as well as when we fee it performed . And when we reflect upon the diftrefs ... colour ftrictly fpeaking that produces the emotion , but the tree as coloured : it is not the figure ab- ftractly ...
Page 91
... colour , figure , fize , & c . is perceived to be one object ; and the emotion it raif- es is one , not different emotions combined . But though the emotion be one , it is however not fim- ple . The perception of the tree is complex ...
... colour , figure , fize , & c . is perceived to be one object ; and the emotion it raif- es is one , not different emotions combined . But though the emotion be one , it is however not fim- ple . The perception of the tree is complex ...
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... colours the vibration of mind betwixt two oppofite paffions directed upon the fame object . Althea had two brothers much be loved , who were unjufty put to death by her fon Meleager in a fit of paffion . She was strongly im- pelled to ...
... colours the vibration of mind betwixt two oppofite paffions directed upon the fame object . Althea had two brothers much be loved , who were unjufty put to death by her fon Meleager in a fit of paffion . She was strongly im- pelled to ...
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... colours . Shakespear handles the same subject , but in a manner uncommon and peculiar to himself . In Othello's foliloquy before putting his wife tot death , love and jealoufy are represented , each ex- erting its whole force , but ...
... colours . Shakespear handles the same subject , but in a manner uncommon and peculiar to himself . In Othello's foliloquy before putting his wife tot death , love and jealoufy are represented , each ex- erting its whole force , but ...
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