Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... person who cannot accurately diftinguish betwixt a flight connection and one that is more folid , is equally affected with both . Such a perfon muft neceffarily have a great command of ideas , because they are introduced by any relation ...
... person who cannot accurately diftinguish betwixt a flight connection and one that is more folid , is equally affected with both . Such a perfon muft neceffarily have a great command of ideas , because they are introduced by any relation ...
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... person , it is for good qualities or good offices : if I have refentment against a man , it must be for fome injury he has done me , and I cannot pity any one , who is un- der no distress of body or of mind . The circumstances now ...
... person , it is for good qualities or good offices : if I have refentment against a man , it must be for fome injury he has done me , and I cannot pity any one , who is un- der no distress of body or of mind . The circumstances now ...
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... person who at present is happy . According to this theory , founded clearly on human nature , a man long dead and infenfible now of paft misfor- tunes , cannot move our pity more than if he had never exifted . The misfortunes described ...
... person who at present is happy . According to this theory , founded clearly on human nature , a man long dead and infenfible now of paft misfor- tunes , cannot move our pity more than if he had never exifted . The misfortunes described ...
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... person in whom it exifts it is agreeable or difagreeable to the per- fon who makes it a fubject of contemplation . When the terms thus defined are applied to par- ticular emotions and paffions , they do not always coincide . And in ...
... person in whom it exifts it is agreeable or difagreeable to the per- fon who makes it a fubject of contemplation . When the terms thus defined are applied to par- ticular emotions and paffions , they do not always coincide . And in ...
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... person's happiness . This de- fire being often put in exercife , works gradually a change internally ; and at laft produceth in me a fettled habit of affection for that perfon , now my friend . Affection thus produced , operates precife ...
... person's happiness . This de- fire being often put in exercife , works gradually a change internally ; and at laft produceth in me a fettled habit of affection for that perfon , now my friend . Affection thus produced , operates precife ...
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action againſt agreeable alfo appears arifing arts beauty becauſe betwixt Cæfar cafe caufe cauſe chap cife circumftance colour confiderable connected courfe cuſtom defcription defire degree difagreeable diftinguiſhed diftrefs dignity diſcover effect elevation emotions and paffions expreffed expreffion external figns faid fame fcarce feeling feems fenfe fenfible fentiments fhall fhould fight fimilar fingle fingular fion firft firſt focial fome fometimes fpecies fpectator ftill ftrong fubject fublime fucceffion fuch fufficient fure furpriſe fwells grandeur gratification habit happineſs hath himſelf Hudibras human impreffion increaſe inftances itſelf jects lefs means meaſure mind moft moſt motion mufic muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfcure obfervation object occafion oppofite Othello paffage pain perceptions perfon pleaſant emotion pleaſure prefent produce produceth propriety puniſhment purpoſes raifed raiſed reafon refemblance reflection reliſh ridicule Shakeſpear ſhall ſtill tafte taſte thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou tion uſe variety