LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES: IN THREE VOLUMES.A. Strahan; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1787 |
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... feems plainly to have pointed out this useful purpose to which the pleasures of taste may be applied , by interpofing them in a middle ftation between the pleasures of sense , and those of pure intellect . We were not defigned to grovel ...
... feems plainly to have pointed out this useful purpose to which the pleasures of taste may be applied , by interpofing them in a middle ftation between the pleasures of sense , and those of pure intellect . We were not defigned to grovel ...
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... we relish fuch beauties , feems more nearly allied to a feeling of fenfe , than to a procefs of the un- derstanding : and accordingly , from an exter- nal * il . bal fenfe it has borrowed its name 20 TAST E. LECT I II Tafte.
... we relish fuch beauties , feems more nearly allied to a feeling of fenfe , than to a procefs of the un- derstanding : and accordingly , from an exter- nal * il . bal fenfe it has borrowed its name 20 TAST E. LECT I II Tafte.
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... feems to include Taste ( for which , in the fense which we now give to that word , the antients appear to have had no diftinct name ) under what he calls judicium . " Locus " de judicio , meâ quidem opinione adeo partibus hujus operis ...
... feems to include Taste ( for which , in the fense which we now give to that word , the antients appear to have had no diftinct name ) under what he calls judicium . " Locus " de judicio , meâ quidem opinione adeo partibus hujus operis ...
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... feems chiefly to arife , from presenting the object to us in one full point of view ; fo that it fhall make its impreffion whole , entire , and undivided , upon the mind . A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds , by ...
... feems chiefly to arife , from presenting the object to us in one full point of view ; fo that it fhall make its impreffion whole , entire , and undivided , upon the mind . A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds , by ...
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... feems to stretch his theory too far , when he represents the Sublime as confifting wholly in modes of dan- ger , or of pain . For the proper sensation of Sublimity appears to be very distinguishable from the fenfation of either of thefe ...
... feems to stretch his theory too far , when he represents the Sublime as confifting wholly in modes of dan- ger , or of pain . For the proper sensation of Sublimity appears to be very distinguishable from the fenfation of either of thefe ...
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