The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, 5. köideT. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 pages |
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... taste and smell, and, judging from the work of Veress (1903), there are inorganic salts with smells as well as tastes. Nevertheless the distinction pointed out seems to us to have some value. But the difference between taste and smell ...
... taste and smell, and, judging from the work of Veress (1903), there are inorganic salts with smells as well as tastes. Nevertheless the distinction pointed out seems to us to have some value. But the difference between taste and smell ...
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Especially Cartoons, Pictures, and Statues Fabius Pictor (pseud.) There Taste is a standard formed by experience . Taste is knowledge . The organisation which consti- tutes the disposition of an individual is , no doubt , a gift of ...
Especially Cartoons, Pictures, and Statues Fabius Pictor (pseud.) There Taste is a standard formed by experience . Taste is knowledge . The organisation which consti- tutes the disposition of an individual is , no doubt , a gift of ...
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... taste . Taste of the higher cir- cles very quickly becomes the legitimate taste . Taste is then , in Bourdieu's words , a form of symbolic capital : the status of certain groups is automati- cally equated with the status of their ...
... taste . Taste of the higher cir- cles very quickly becomes the legitimate taste . Taste is then , in Bourdieu's words , a form of symbolic capital : the status of certain groups is automati- cally equated with the status of their ...
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... taste and but little principle . Nevertheless , every person , whether arrived at years of discretion or not , thinks himself qualified to judge of a painting or a statue . The most modest say , " I know nothing about it , but I know ...
... taste and but little principle . Nevertheless , every person , whether arrived at years of discretion or not , thinks himself qualified to judge of a painting or a statue . The most modest say , " I know nothing about it , but I know ...
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... taste. That is, the taste of middlebrow magazines like Time, anyway. In a famous 1949 Harper's magazine article, Russell Lynes speculated that in the postwar period, old class distinctions were no longer operative.22 In their place, a ...
... taste. That is, the taste of middlebrow magazines like Time, anyway. In a famous 1949 Harper's magazine article, Russell Lynes speculated that in the postwar period, old class distinctions were no longer operative.22 In their place, a ...
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Page 12 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 13 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 18 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 15 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :; Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 17 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 32 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 8 - Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door, Sir, let me see your works and you no more. *Tis sung, when Midas...
Page 5 - A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross!
Page 11 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.