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 106
... resemblance between the emotions cannot be too strong , nor the connection between their caufes too flight . The former condition is felf - evident ; and the reafon of the latter is , that the pleasure of harmony is felt from various ...
... resemblance between the emotions cannot be too strong , nor the connection between their caufes too flight . The former condition is felf - evident ; and the reafon of the latter is , that the pleasure of harmony is felt from various ...
Page 173
... resemblance of a cone ; and a chain of mountains no lefs fo , though deficient in the ac- curacy of order and proportion . We require a fmall furface to be fmooth ; but in an extenfive plain , con- fiderable inequalities are overlooked ...
... resemblance of a cone ; and a chain of mountains no lefs fo , though deficient in the ac- curacy of order and proportion . We require a fmall furface to be fmooth ; but in an extenfive plain , con- fiderable inequalities are overlooked ...
Page 179
... resemblance of the effects prompts us to extend the term beauty to these objects . This equally accounts for the terms grandeur and fublimity taken in a figurative fenfe . Every emotion , from whatever caufe proceeding , that refembles ...
... resemblance of the effects prompts us to extend the term beauty to these objects . This equally accounts for the terms grandeur and fublimity taken in a figurative fenfe . Every emotion , from whatever caufe proceeding , that refembles ...
Page 207
... to wonder at new ap- pearances , if they have any resemblance to what we are acquainted with ; for a thing must be fingular as well well as new , to raise our wonder . To 04 . Novelty, and the unexpected pearance of Objects,
... to wonder at new ap- pearances , if they have any resemblance to what we are acquainted with ; for a thing must be fingular as well well as new , to raise our wonder . To 04 . Novelty, and the unexpected pearance of Objects,
Page 214
... resemblance to a known species , is an instance of a third degree of novelty : a strong resemblance among individuals of the fame fpecies , prevents almost entirely the ef fect of novelty , unless distance of place or fome other ...
... resemblance to a known species , is an instance of a third degree of novelty : a strong resemblance among individuals of the fame fpecies , prevents almost entirely the ef fect of novelty , unless distance of place or fome other ...
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