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... feeling , as not to need instruction : it is equally rare to find one so low in feeling , as not to be capable of instruction . And yet , to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature , is scarce endeavored in any ...
... feeling , as not to need instruction : it is equally rare to find one so low in feeling , as not to be capable of instruction . And yet , to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature , is scarce endeavored in any ...
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... silk . When I describe a picture of that kind to another , the idea he forms of it is termed a conception . Imagination is active , conception is passive . 12. Feeling , besides denoting one of the external senses 10 INTRODUCTION .
... silk . When I describe a picture of that kind to another , the idea he forms of it is termed a conception . Imagination is active , conception is passive . 12. Feeling , besides denoting one of the external senses 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... feeling being the genus of which sen- sation is a species , their meaning is the same when applied to pleasure and pain felt at the organ of sense and accordingly we say indif- ferently , " I feel pleasure from heat , and pain from cold ...
... feeling being the genus of which sen- sation is a species , their meaning is the same when applied to pleasure and pain felt at the organ of sense and accordingly we say indif- ferently , " I feel pleasure from heat , and pain from cold ...
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... feeling as at the place of contact ; which feeling we distinguish not , at least not accurately , from the agreeableness of the body itself ; and the same holds in general with regard to all organic impressions . It is otherwise in ...
... feeling as at the place of contact ; which feeling we distinguish not , at least not accurately , from the agreeableness of the body itself ; and the same holds in general with regard to all organic impressions . It is otherwise in ...
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... feeling else , Save what beats there . King Lear , Act III . Sc . 5 . 36. Genus , species , modification , are terms invented to distinguish beings from each other . Individuals are distinguished by their qualities : a number of ...
... feeling else , Save what beats there . King Lear , Act III . Sc . 5 . 36. Genus , species , modification , are terms invented to distinguish beings from each other . Individuals are distinguished by their qualities : a number of ...
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Page 59 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 261 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules : within a month ? Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 413 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 411 - 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 345 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean...
Page 33 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 411 - I thought, that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment : But whate'er you are> That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time...
Page 154 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 302 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 461 - 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 Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...