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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... objects where there cannot be an organic impreffion . Thus the author of pa- ture , by qualifying the human mind for a ... object as well as of the percipient , hath accurately fuited them to each other . But of a poem , a cântata , a ...
... objects where there cannot be an organic impreffion . Thus the author of pa- ture , by qualifying the human mind for a ... object as well as of the percipient , hath accurately fuited them to each other . But of a poem , a cântata , a ...
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... object is no fooner prefented to us in idea , than it fug- gefts to the mind other objects to which it is related ; and in that manner is a train of thoughts compofed . Such is the law of fucceffion ; which must be natural , because it ...
... object is no fooner prefented to us in idea , than it fug- gefts to the mind other objects to which it is related ; and in that manner is a train of thoughts compofed . Such is the law of fucceffion ; which must be natural , because it ...
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... object is introduced by à proper connection , we are confcious of a certain pleafure arifing from that circumstance . Among objects of equal rank , the pleasure is proportioned to the degree of connection : but among unequal objects ...
... object is introduced by à proper connection , we are confcious of a certain pleafure arifing from that circumstance . Among objects of equal rank , the pleasure is proportioned to the degree of connection : but among unequal objects ...
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... object in diftrefs , if that object did not give pain . What is now faid about the production of emotion or paffion , refolves into a very fimple propofition , That we love what is agreeable , and hate what is difagreeable . And indeed ...
... object in diftrefs , if that object did not give pain . What is now faid about the production of emotion or paffion , refolves into a very fimple propofition , That we love what is agreeable , and hate what is difagreeable . And indeed ...
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... object recalled to the mind in idea , is the occafion of a pleasant or painful emotion , of the fame kind with that produced when the object was pref- ent the only difference is , that an idea being fainter than an original perception ...
... object recalled to the mind in idea , is the occafion of a pleasant or painful emotion , of the fame kind with that produced when the object was pref- ent the only difference is , that an idea being fainter than an original perception ...
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