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 196
... taste . It is not natural that the imagination of a writer fhould be fo much heated at the very commencement ; and , at any rate , he cannot expect fuch ductility in his readers . But if this practice can be juflified by authority ...
... taste . It is not natural that the imagination of a writer fhould be fo much heated at the very commencement ; and , at any rate , he cannot expect fuch ductility in his readers . But if this practice can be juflified by authority ...
Page 225
... taste and experience discover the proper limits . Secondly , Whatever refemblance fubjects may have , it is wrong to put one for another , where they bear no mutual proportion : upon comparing a very high to a very low fubject , the ...
... taste and experience discover the proper limits . Secondly , Whatever refemblance fubjects may have , it is wrong to put one for another , where they bear no mutual proportion : upon comparing a very high to a very low fubject , the ...
Page 282
... taste be fufficient to justify them ? At the fame time , we are at no lofs about the reafon : they evidently make the narration dramatic , and have an air of truth , by making things appear as paffing in our fight . But fuch repetitions ...
... taste be fufficient to justify them ? At the fame time , we are at no lofs about the reafon : they evidently make the narration dramatic , and have an air of truth , by making things appear as paffing in our fight . But fuch repetitions ...
Page 305
... taste or irregular imagination . And , next , were it poffible , by difguifing the fiction , to delude us into a notion of reality , which I think can hardly be ; ; an infuperable , objection would ftill remain , that the aim or end of ...
... taste or irregular imagination . And , next , were it poffible , by difguifing the fiction , to delude us into a notion of reality , which I think can hardly be ; ; an infuperable , objection would ftill remain , that the aim or end of ...
Page 339
... taste in these arts , greater than in any art that has but a fingle deftination . Architecture and gardening cannot otherwife enter- tain the mind , but by raifing certain agreeable emo- tions or feelings ; with which we muft begin , as ...
... taste in these arts , greater than in any art that has but a fingle deftination . Architecture and gardening cannot otherwife enter- tain the mind , but by raifing certain agreeable emo- tions or feelings ; with which we muft begin , as ...
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