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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... gratification , but also to relax them when overftrained in any violent purfuit . Here is a remedy provided for many diftreffes ; and , to be convinced of its falutary effects , it will be fufficient to run over the fol- lowing ...
... gratification , but also to relax them when overftrained in any violent purfuit . Here is a remedy provided for many diftreffes ; and , to be convinced of its falutary effects , it will be fufficient to run over the fol- lowing ...
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... gratification . Our first perceptions are of external objects , and our firft attachments are to them . Organic pleasures take the lead ; but the mind , gradually ripening , relifheth more and more the pleafures ? of the eye and ear ...
... gratification . Our first perceptions are of external objects , and our firft attachments are to them . Organic pleasures take the lead ; but the mind , gradually ripening , relifheth more and more the pleafures ? of the eye and ear ...
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... gratification of our paffions , and even in their production . But that fubject is referved to be treat- ed in the chapter of emotions and paffions * . There is not perhaps another inftance of a building fo great erected upon a ...
... gratification of our paffions , and even in their production . But that fubject is referved to be treat- ed in the chapter of emotions and paffions * . There is not perhaps another inftance of a building fo great erected upon a ...
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... gratify any of the inferior fenfes . The defign accordingly of this chapter is to delineate that connection , with the view chiefly to ascertain what power the fine arts have to raise emotions and paffions . To thofe who would excel in ...
... gratify any of the inferior fenfes . The defign accordingly of this chapter is to delineate that connection , with the view chiefly to ascertain what power the fine arts have to raise emotions and paffions . To thofe who would excel in ...
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... gratify the paffion . The cause of a paffion is fufficiently explained above : it is that being or thing , which , by raifing defire , con- verts an emotion into a paffion . When we confider a paffion with refpect to its power of ...
... gratify the paffion . The cause of a paffion is fufficiently explained above : it is that being or thing , which , by raifing defire , con- verts an emotion into a paffion . When we confider a paffion with refpect to its power of ...
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