Elements of CriticismConner & Cooke, 1833 - 504 pages |
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... elevation and dignity - Organic pleasures defective in three particulars - Intellectual pleasures fatigue , but are relieved by the pleasures of the eye and the ear- Taste in the fine arts nearly allied to moral sense - The design of ...
... elevation and dignity - Organic pleasures defective in three particulars - Intellectual pleasures fatigue , but are relieved by the pleasures of the eye and the ear- Taste in the fine arts nearly allied to moral sense - The design of ...
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... elevation . Being sweet and mode- rately exhilarating , they are , in their tone , equally distant from the turbulence of passion , and the languor of indolence : and by that tone are perfectly well qualified , not only to revive the ...
... elevation . Being sweet and mode- rately exhilarating , they are , in their tone , equally distant from the turbulence of passion , and the languor of indolence : and by that tone are perfectly well qualified , not only to revive the ...
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... Elevation touches the mind no less than grandeur ; and in raising the mind to elevated objects , there is a sensible pleasure . The course of nature , however , has still a greater influence than eleva- tion : and therefore , the ...
... Elevation touches the mind no less than grandeur ; and in raising the mind to elevated objects , there is a sensible pleasure . The course of nature , however , has still a greater influence than eleva- tion : and therefore , the ...
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... elevation ; which is , that the mind attached to beauties of a high rank , cannot descend to infe- rior beauties . The best artists , accordingly , have in all ages been governed by a taste for simplicity . How comes it then that we ...
... elevation ; which is , that the mind attached to beauties of a high rank , cannot descend to infe- rior beauties . The best artists , accordingly , have in all ages been governed by a taste for simplicity . How comes it then that we ...
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... Elevation of an object affects us as well as magnitude - The effect of a great object ; and also of an elevated one - Emotions produced by great and elevated objects , are grandeur and sublimity - Greatness , considered abstractly , is ...
... Elevation of an object affects us as well as magnitude - The effect of a great object ; and also of an elevated one - Emotions produced by great and elevated objects , are grandeur and sublimity - Greatness , considered abstractly , is ...
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Page 143 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 371 - And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up, And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 395 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 112 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 439 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 400 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 399 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 226 - I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ; They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh : But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool ; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
Page 388 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 377 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.