Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... present subject might be foon difcuff- ed . But the variety of nature is not so easily reached ; and for confuting fuch Utopian fyftems without the intricacy of reafoning , it appears the beft best method to enter into human nature ...
... present subject might be foon difcuff- ed . But the variety of nature is not so easily reached ; and for confuting fuch Utopian fyftems without the intricacy of reafoning , it appears the beft best method to enter into human nature ...
Page 49
... present theory , I must now remark a difference betwixt a primary emotion and a prima- ry paffion in the production of fecondary emotions . A fecondary emotion cannot but be more faint than the primary ; and therefore , if the chief or ...
... present theory , I must now remark a difference betwixt a primary emotion and a prima- ry paffion in the production of fecondary emotions . A fecondary emotion cannot but be more faint than the primary ; and therefore , if the chief or ...
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... present to my mind during the whole progress of my thoughts , admits not any time but the present . I have had occasion to observe * , that ideas both of memory and of fpeech , produce emotions of the fame kind with what are produced by ...
... present to my mind during the whole progress of my thoughts , admits not any time but the present . I have had occasion to observe * , that ideas both of memory and of fpeech , produce emotions of the fame kind with what are produced by ...
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... 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 in a genu ...
... 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 in a genu ...
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... present distress in both cafes , makes the time appear extremely tedious . The reader probably will not be difpleased , to have this branch of the fubject illuftrated in a plea- fant manner , by an author acquainted with every maze of ...
... present distress in both cafes , makes the time appear extremely tedious . The reader probably will not be difpleased , to have this branch of the fubject illuftrated in a plea- fant manner , by an author acquainted with every maze of ...
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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