Elements of Criticism, Volume 1Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 - Criticism |
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Page 132
... respect to pleasant emotions , will readily be admitted . But why should painful emotions be an exception , when they are not lefs natural than the other ? The propofition holds true in both . Thus the painful emotion raised by a ...
... respect to pleasant emotions , will readily be admitted . But why should painful emotions be an exception , when they are not lefs natural than the other ? The propofition holds true in both . Thus the painful emotion raised by a ...
Page 257
... respect of its re- gularity be beautiful . But I have not said , that regularity , order , and uniformity , are effential to beauty , fo as that it cannot exist without them . The contrary appears in the beauty of colour . Far lefs have ...
... respect of its re- gularity be beautiful . But I have not said , that regularity , order , and uniformity , are effential to beauty , fo as that it cannot exist without them . The contrary appears in the beauty of colour . Far lefs have ...
Page 386
... respect to uniformity and variety , than with respect to the rate of fucceffion . The mind ingroffed by any paffion , love or hatred , hope or fear , broods over its ob- ject , and can bear no interruption . In fuch a state , the train ...
... respect to uniformity and variety , than with respect to the rate of fucceffion . The mind ingroffed by any paffion , love or hatred , hope or fear , broods over its ob- ject , and can bear no interruption . In fuch a state , the train ...
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action Æneid againſt agreeable alfo alſo anger appears arts beauty becauſe betwixt Cæfar cafe caufe cauſe circumſtances compariſon confideration confidered connection contraft courſe criticiſm defcribing defire deſcription diftrefs diſagreeable diſcover diſtinct diſtinguiſhed diſtreſs effect emotion raiſed emotions and paffions exerciſe exiſtence faid fame feeling fenfe fenfible fhall fight fimilar fingle fingular fion firſt focial fome fometimes foon ftill fubject fublime fucceffion fuch fufficient grandeur gratification happineſs hath himſelf Iago ideal prefence ideas impreffion inftances intereſting itſelf ject lefs leſs meaſure ment mind moſt motion mufic muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation object occafion oppofite Othello paffing painful emotion paſ paſt perceive perceptions perfon pity pleaſant emotion pleaſure preſent produce produceth puniſh purpoſes qualities reaſon reflection reliſh remarkable reſemblance ſcarce ſelfiſh ſenſe ſeparate Shakeſpear ſhall ſhould ſmall ſome ſpectator ſtill ſtrong ſuch ſurpriſe taſte thefe theſe thing thoſe tion uſe variety