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... pleasing . We form our notions from what we have seen ; and though , could we comprehend the universe , we might perhaps find it uniformly regular , yet the portions that we see of it habituate our fancy to the contrary . The eye should ...
... pleasing . We form our notions from what we have seen ; and though , could we comprehend the universe , we might perhaps find it uniformly regular , yet the portions that we see of it habituate our fancy to the contrary . The eye should ...
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... pleasing in painting . I use the term roughness ; but properly speaking roughness relates only to the surfaces of bodies : when we speak of their delineation , we use the word ruggedness . Both ideas , however , equally enter into the ...
... pleasing in painting . I use the term roughness ; but properly speaking roughness relates only to the surfaces of bodies : when we speak of their delineation , we use the word ruggedness . Both ideas , however , equally enter into the ...
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... pleasing ways may very properly be loved as a benefactor ; and he that supplies life with in- nocent amusement will certainly be caressed as a pleasing com- panion . But few of those who fill the world with books have any pre- tensions ...
... pleasing ways may very properly be loved as a benefactor ; and he that supplies life with in- nocent amusement will certainly be caressed as a pleasing com- panion . But few of those who fill the world with books have any pre- tensions ...
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Daniel Defoe | 11 |
Isaac Watts | 57 |
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