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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Page 74
... passion , in every instance , to reason and reflection : it was given us to prevent or to repel inju- ries ; and , like fear , it often operates blindly and inftinct- ively , without the leaft view to confequences : the very firft ...
... passion , in every instance , to reason and reflection : it was given us to prevent or to repel inju- ries ; and , like fear , it often operates blindly and inftinct- ively , without the leaft view to confequences : the very firft ...
Page 81
... passions but by ideal prefence only ; and confequently , that in this refpect it ftands upon the fame footing with fable . To me it appears clear , that in neither can our sympathy hold firm against reflection : for if the reflection ...
... passions but by ideal prefence only ; and confequently , that in this refpect it ftands upon the fame footing with fable . To me it appears clear , that in neither can our sympathy hold firm against reflection : for if the reflection ...
Page 347
... passion must be natural ; for they are invariably the fame in every country , and among the different tribes of men : pride , for example , is always expreffed by an erect pofture , - reverence by proftration , and forrow by a dejected ...
... passion must be natural ; for they are invariably the fame in every country , and among the different tribes of men : pride , for example , is always expreffed by an erect pofture , - reverence by proftration , and forrow by a dejected ...
Page 351
... passion , those of affliction or diftrefs are the moft illuftrious with refpect to a final caufe . They are illustrious by the fingularity of their contrivance , and alfo by inspiring fympathy , a paflion to which human fociety is ...
... passion , those of affliction or diftrefs are the moft illuftrious with refpect to a final caufe . They are illustrious by the fingularity of their contrivance , and alfo by inspiring fympathy , a paflion to which human fociety is ...
Page 362
... passion , palles in fome measure unobferved , when great perfonages are the speakers ; but in the months of the vulgar , the impropriety with regard to the fpeaker as well as to the paffion reprefented , is fo remarkable as to be come ...
... passion , palles in fome measure unobferved , when great perfonages are the speakers ; but in the months of the vulgar , the impropriety with regard to the fpeaker as well as to the paffion reprefented , is fo remarkable as to be come ...
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