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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... human mind for a fuc- ceffion of enjoyments from low to high , leads it by gentle fteps from the moft grovelling cor- porcal pleafures , for which only it is fitted in the beginning of life , to thofe refined and fub- lime pleafures ...
... human mind for a fuc- ceffion of enjoyments from low to high , leads it by gentle fteps from the moft grovelling cor- porcal pleafures , for which only it is fitted in the beginning of life , to thofe refined and fub- lime pleafures ...
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... human nature , and governed by principles common to all men . The defign of the pref- ent undertaking , which afpires not to morali- ty , is , to examine the fenfitive branch of human nature , to trace the objects that are naturally ...
... human nature , and governed by principles common to all men . The defign of the pref- ent undertaking , which afpires not to morali- ty , is , to examine the fenfitive branch of human nature , to trace the objects that are naturally ...
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... human nature . It could not furely be his opinion , that thefe poets , however emi- nent for genius , were entitled to give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will : if in writing they ...
... human nature . It could not furely be his opinion , that thefe poets , however emi- nent for genius , were entitled to give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will : if in writing they ...
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... human nature ; and I promise beforehand , that it will be found of great importance in the fine arts . It appears , that the relations by which things are link- ed together , have a great influence in directing the train of thought ...
... human nature ; and I promise beforehand , that it will be found of great importance in the fine arts . It appears , that the relations by which things are link- ed together , have a great influence in directing the train of thought ...
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... human nature , their true fource . We have but a fingle choice , which is , to con- tinue a little longer in the fame train , or to abandon the undertaking altogether . Candour obliges me to notify this to my readers , that fuch of them ...
... human nature , their true fource . We have but a fingle choice , which is , to con- tinue a little longer in the fame train , or to abandon the undertaking altogether . Candour obliges me to notify this to my readers , that fuch of them ...
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