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Page 38
... discourse was gone off from the death of the French King to that of Monfieur Boileau , Racine , Corneille , and several other poets , whom they regretted upon this occafion , as perfons who would have obliged the world with very noble ...
... discourse was gone off from the death of the French King to that of Monfieur Boileau , Racine , Corneille , and several other poets , whom they regretted upon this occafion , as perfons who would have obliged the world with very noble ...
Page 53
... discourses of piety , who would be warmed and tranfported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm . If nonfenfe , when accompanied with fuch an emo + tion of voice and body , has fuch an influence on mens minds ...
... discourses of piety , who would be warmed and tranfported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm . If nonfenfe , when accompanied with fuch an emo + tion of voice and body , has fuch an influence on mens minds ...
Page 69
... discourse of those primary pleasures of the ima- gination , which entirely proceed from fuch objects as are before our eyes ; and , in the next place , to fpeak of thofe fecondary pleasures of the imagina- tion which flow from the ideas ...
... discourse of those primary pleasures of the ima- gination , which entirely proceed from fuch objects as are before our eyes ; and , in the next place , to fpeak of thofe fecondary pleasures of the imagina- tion which flow from the ideas ...
Page 85
... discourse . The art I mean is that of architec- ture , which I fhall confider only with regard to the light in which the foregoing fpeculations have pla- ced it , without entering into thofe rules and maxims which the great mafters of ...
... discourse . The art I mean is that of architec- ture , which I fhall confider only with regard to the light in which the foregoing fpeculations have pla- ced it , without entering into thofe rules and maxims which the great mafters of ...
Page 112
... , than the paffages which are to be explained . Allegories , when well chofen , are like fo many tracks of light in a discourse , that make every thing about about them clear and beautiful . A noble metaphor , 112 THE SPECTATOR . No. 421 .
... , than the paffages which are to be explained . Allegories , when well chofen , are like fo many tracks of light in a discourse , that make every thing about about them clear and beautiful . A noble metaphor , 112 THE SPECTATOR . No. 421 .
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