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... object , and draw nigh obliquely . The side trees and vistas should be so circumstanced as to afford a probability that they grew by nature . Ruinated structures appear to derive their power of pleasing from the irregularity of surface ...
... object , and draw nigh obliquely . The side trees and vistas should be so circumstanced as to afford a probability that they grew by nature . Ruinated structures appear to derive their power of pleasing from the irregularity of surface ...
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... object is the beauty of women . The other is the great society with man and all other ani- mals . The passion subservient to this is called likewise love , but it has no mixture of lust , and its object is beauty ; which is a name I ...
... object is the beauty of women . The other is the great society with man and all other ani- mals . The passion subservient to this is called likewise love , but it has no mixture of lust , and its object is beauty ; which is a name I ...
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... object , the particular passion under this head called sympathy has the great- est extent . The nature of this ... object that it cannot entertain any other , nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it . Hence arises the ...
... object , the particular passion under this head called sympathy has the great- est extent . The nature of this ... object that it cannot entertain any other , nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it . Hence arises the ...
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Daniel Defoe | 11 |
Isaac Watts | 57 |
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