 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 776 pages
...organization of the soul. — Sir J. Reynold*. I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the son] is onlv sharpening the dagger before he strikes it to his heart. —Cumberland. Curst is t — Addison. TATTLING.-(See "Gossip.") I have ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...writing, and shown the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be "that faculty of the soul which discerns...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike." If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...writing, and shown the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be "that faculty of the soul which discerns...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike." If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...writing, and shown the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be "that faculty of the soul which discerns...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike." If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...1828. TASTE Taste [A] fine taste in writing ... I think I may define . . . defined. to £et/lat yacuity Of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. It is very difficult to lay down rules for the acquirement of such a taste as that I am here speaking... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - English literature - 1914 - 346 pages
...paper on " Taste," he gives us a definition that unifies all conflicting claims, as he says, " It is that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and his imperfections with dislike." This is an apt illustration of the real Addisonian spirit, through... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...withus; TASTE [A] fine taste in writing ... I think I may define . . . tQ ^ that faculty of the sou!, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. It is very difficult to lay down rules for the acquirement of such a taste as that I am here speaking... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 576 pages
...writing, and shown the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be " that faculty of the soul, which discerns...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike." If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1917 - 890 pages
...that act of mind by which we like or dislike, whatever be the subject." Addison had designated taste " that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike." 8S Reid, following this suggestion, spoke of " that power of the mind by which we are capa" Ibid.,... | |
 | John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart - Louisiana - 1920 - 650 pages
...may record my views by quoting Addison's definition of taste as follows: "I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and imperfections with dislikes." I base my criticism in this quotation, but will make it mild. It is impossible... | |
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I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike. 
