Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I(-II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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... feeling , pleafant or painful , muft be in the mind ; and yet , because in tafting , touching , and smelling , we are fenfible of the impreffion See the Appendix , 13 . made VOL . I. B made upon the organ , we are led to place.
... feeling , pleafant or painful , muft be in the mind ; and yet , because in tafting , touching , and smelling , we are fenfible of the impreffion See the Appendix , 13 . made VOL . I. B made upon the organ , we are led to place.
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... because they give him pain . On the other hand , a man void of tafte , upon whom even ftriking beauties make but a faint impreffion , indulges pride or envy without control , and loves to brood over errors and blemishes . In a word ...
... because they give him pain . On the other hand , a man void of tafte , upon whom even ftriking beauties make but a faint impreffion , indulges pride or envy without control , and loves to brood over errors and blemishes . In a word ...
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... because cenfuring with a view merely to find fault , cannot be entertaining to any perfon of hu- manity . Writers , one fhould imagine , ought , above all others , to be referved on that article , when they lie fo open to retaliation ...
... because cenfuring with a view merely to find fault , cannot be entertaining to any perfon of hu- manity . Writers , one fhould imagine , ought , above all others , to be referved on that article , when they lie fo open to retaliation ...
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... because the flighter re- lations , making no figure in his mind , have no power to introduce ideas . And hence it is , that accurate judg- ment is not friendly to declamation or copious elo- quence . This reafoning is confirmed by ...
... because the flighter re- lations , making no figure in his mind , have no power to introduce ideas . And hence it is , that accurate judg- ment is not friendly to declamation or copious elo- quence . This reafoning is confirmed by ...
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... because objects of fight make an im- preffion fo lively , as that a relation even of the flightest kind is relished . This however ought not to be imitat- ed in defcription : words are fo far fhort of the eye in liveliness of impreffion ...
... because objects of fight make an im- preffion fo lively , as that a relation even of the flightest kind is relished . This however ought not to be imitat- ed in defcription : words are fo far fhort of the eye in liveliness of impreffion ...
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