Elements of Criticism, Volume 1John Bell and William Creech; and for T. Cadell, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London., 1788 - Aesthetics - 2 pages |
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... in wine . Having narrowly efcaped death by the fall of a tree , this poet takes occafion to obferve juftly , that while we Lib . 2. ode 13 . guard guard against some dangers , we are exposed to others Ch . I. IN A TRAIN . 27.
... in wine . Having narrowly efcaped death by the fall of a tree , this poet takes occafion to obferve juftly , that while we Lib . 2. ode 13 . guard guard against some dangers , we are exposed to others Ch . I. IN A TRAIN . 27.
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... against avarice , which he pursues till the line 108. there he makes an apo- logy for wandering , and promises to return to his fubject ; but avarice having got poffeffion of his mind , he follows out that theme to the end , and never ...
... against avarice , which he pursues till the line 108. there he makes an apo- logy for wandering , and promises to return to his fubject ; but avarice having got poffeffion of his mind , he follows out that theme to the end , and never ...
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... against that elaborate defcrip- tion of Fame in the Æneid : any other book of that heroic poem , or of any heroic poem , has as good a title to that defcription as the book where it is placed . In a natural landscape we every day ...
... against that elaborate defcrip- tion of Fame in the Æneid : any other book of that heroic poem , or of any heroic poem , has as good a title to that defcription as the book where it is placed . In a natural landscape we every day ...
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... against a man , it must be for fome injury he has done me : and I cannot pity any one who is under no diftrefs of body nor of mind . The circumstances now mentioned , if they raife an emotion or passion , cannot be entirely indiffer- C ...
... against a man , it must be for fome injury he has done me : and I cannot pity any one who is under no diftrefs of body nor of mind . The circumstances now mentioned , if they raife an emotion or passion , cannot be entirely indiffer- C ...
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... against the author : nor would the paffion of pity be raised by an object in diftrefs , if that object did not give pain . What is now faid about the production of e- motion or paffion , refolves into a very fimple propofition , That we ...
... against the author : nor would the paffion of pity be raised by an object in diftrefs , if that object did not give pain . What is now faid about the production of e- motion or paffion , refolves into a very fimple propofition , That we ...
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