Elements of CriticismConner & Cooke, 1833 - 504 pages |
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... means to discover , if we can , what are the genuine principles of teane mine who aspires to be a critic in these ... mean or trivial . Hence a foundation for reasoning upon the taste * A taste for natural objects is born with us ...
... means to discover , if we can , what are the genuine principles of teane mine who aspires to be a critic in these ... mean or trivial . Hence a foundation for reasoning upon the taste * A taste for natural objects is born with us ...
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... means of their pro- perties and qualities . To the emotion raised by a large river , its size , its force , and its ... means of its attributes ; and therefore no being can be agreeable to us otherwise than by their means . But ...
... means of their pro- perties and qualities . To the emotion raised by a large river , its size , its force , and its ... means of its attributes ; and therefore no being can be agreeable to us otherwise than by their means . But ...
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... means into an end : and animal love often hurries to fruition , without a thought even of gratification . A passion when it flames so high as to impel us to act blindly without any view to consequences , good or ill , may in that state ...
... means into an end : and animal love often hurries to fruition , without a thought even of gratification . A passion when it flames so high as to impel us to act blindly without any view to consequences , good or ill , may in that state ...
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... means of their attributes : and hence it is , that of self the perception is more lively than of any other thing . Self is an agreeable object : and for the reason now given , must be more agreeable than any other object . Is this ...
... means of their attributes : and hence it is , that of self the perception is more lively than of any other thing . Self is an agreeable object : and for the reason now given , must be more agreeable than any other object . Is this ...
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... means by which one human being can display itself to another , the objects of the eye must so far yield preference ... mean the discipline and exercise of that genuine and perfect music , which is useful in every state , but ...
... means by which one human being can display itself to another , the objects of the eye must so far yield preference ... mean the discipline and exercise of that genuine and perfect music , which is useful in every state , but ...
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Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions Henry Home Kames No preview available - 2019 |
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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.