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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... hath no relifh but while we are in vigour , is ill qualified for that office ; but the finer pleafures of fenfe , which occupy without exhaufting the mind , are finely qualified to restore its ufual tone after fevere application to ...
... hath no relifh but while we are in vigour , is ill qualified for that office ; but the finer pleafures of fenfe , which occupy without exhaufting the mind , are finely qualified to restore its ufual tone after fevere application to ...
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... hath enabled us to carry it on in a natural courfe . Nor has he made our talk either difagreeable or difficult .: on the contrary , the tranfition is fweet and cafy , from corporeal pleafures to the more refined pleasures of fenfe ; and ...
... hath enabled us to carry it on in a natural courfe . Nor has he made our talk either difagreeable or difficult .: on the contrary , the tranfition is fweet and cafy , from corporeal pleafures to the more refined pleasures of fenfe ; and ...
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... hath ob- tained the afcendant : men now affert their na- tive privilege of thinking for themselves and difdain to be ranked in any fect , whatever be * the Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable conftitution , del- icacy of tafte to ...
... hath ob- tained the afcendant : men now affert their na- tive privilege of thinking for themselves and difdain to be ranked in any fect , whatever be * the Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable conftitution , del- icacy of tafte to ...
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... hath difcov- ered or collected upon that fubject , he choofes to impart in the gay and agreeable form of crit- icifm ; imagining that this form will be more relifhed , and perhaps be no lefs inftructive , than a regular and laboured ...
... hath difcov- ered or collected upon that fubject , he choofes to impart in the gay and agreeable form of crit- icifm ; imagining that this form will be more relifhed , and perhaps be no lefs inftructive , than a regular and laboured ...
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... hath alfo a confiderable influence to vary the natural train of ideas ; which is , that , in the minds of fome perfons , thoughts and circumftances crowd upon each other by the flightest connections . I afcribe this to a bluntnefs in ...
... hath alfo a confiderable influence to vary the natural train of ideas ; which is , that , in the minds of fome perfons , thoughts and circumftances crowd upon each other by the flightest connections . I afcribe this to a bluntnefs in ...
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