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Page 10
... leaft conceivable . In like manner , the utmost pleasure of which the imagination is fuf- ceptible by a poetical narrative or exhibition , is a thing , in my judgment , not inconceivable . We Britons , for example , do , by immenfe de ...
... leaft conceivable . In like manner , the utmost pleasure of which the imagination is fuf- ceptible by a poetical narrative or exhibition , is a thing , in my judgment , not inconceivable . We Britons , for example , do , by immenfe de ...
Page 27
... leaft , if not infidious . It is obvious , that either of these , far from being fubfervient to the main defign , would diftract the attention from it . THERE is indeed one kind of addrefs to the understanding , and only one , which ...
... leaft , if not infidious . It is obvious , that either of these , far from being fubfervient to the main defign , would diftract the attention from it . THERE is indeed one kind of addrefs to the understanding , and only one , which ...
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... leaft of tragedy , being upon the paffions , the drama falls under another fpecies , to be explained afterwards . But that kind of addrefs of which I am now treating , attains the fummit of perfection in the fublime , or those great and ...
... leaft of tragedy , being upon the paffions , the drama falls under another fpecies , to be explained afterwards . But that kind of addrefs of which I am now treating , attains the fummit of perfection in the fublime , or those great and ...
Page 86
... leaft invalidate what I have now affirmed ; for it is plain , that this is fug- gefted in the way of fimilitude , to illuftrate what he had advanced , and not as a particular in- stance of the pofition he had laid down . For we can ...
... leaft invalidate what I have now affirmed ; for it is plain , that this is fug- gefted in the way of fimilitude , to illuftrate what he had advanced , and not as a particular in- stance of the pofition he had laid down . For we can ...
Page 88
... leaft tendency to laugh . Of this in- ftances have been given already from Boling- broke and Swift , and innumerable others will occur to thofe who are converfant in the writ- ings of thofe authors . Secondly , laughter may be , be ...
... leaft tendency to laugh . Of this in- ftances have been given already from Boling- broke and Swift , and innumerable others will occur to thofe who are converfant in the writ- ings of thofe authors . Secondly , laughter may be , be ...
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