Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... proper for a judge , modeft behaviour for a young woman , and a lofty 19 Nec vero illa parva vis naturæ eft rationifque , quod u- num hoc animal fentit quid fit ordo , quid fit quod deceat in fa- etis dictifque , qui modus . Itaque ...
... proper for a judge , modeft behaviour for a young woman , and a lofty 19 Nec vero illa parva vis naturæ eft rationifque , quod u- num hoc animal fentit quid fit ordo , quid fit quod deceat in fa- etis dictifque , qui modus . Itaque ...
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... proper , would a- ny good writer deal in fuch compofitions , or any man of sense receive them without difguft ? Can it be fuppofed , that Lewis XIV . of France was endued by nature with any fense of propriety , when , in a dramatic ...
... proper , would a- ny good writer deal in fuch compofitions , or any man of sense receive them without difguft ? Can it be fuppofed , that Lewis XIV . of France was endued by nature with any fense of propriety , when , in a dramatic ...
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... proper for a ball , will appear not altogether fo decent at pu- blic worship ; and the fame perfon ought to dress differently for a marriage - feast and for a burial . Nothing is more intimately related to a man , than his fentiments ...
... proper for a ball , will appear not altogether fo decent at pu- blic worship ; and the fame perfon ought to dress differently for a marriage - feast and for a burial . Nothing is more intimately related to a man , than his fentiments ...
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... proper , we reward him with our esteem : when improper , we punish him with our contempt . Let us suppose , for example , an heroic action fuitable to the character of the author , which raises in him and in every spectator the pleasant ...
... proper , we reward him with our esteem : when improper , we punish him with our contempt . Let us suppose , for example , an heroic action fuitable to the character of the author , which raises in him and in every spectator the pleasant ...
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... proper , is , in other words , to say , that it ought to be performed ; and to fay it is improper , is , in other words , to fay , that it ought to be forborn . It is this very consciousness of ought and should inclu- ded in the moral ...
... proper , is , in other words , to say , that it ought to be performed ; and to fay it is improper , is , in other words , to fay , that it ought to be forborn . It is this very consciousness of ought and should inclu- ded in the moral ...
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