Elements of CriticismA.S. Barnes & Burr, 1859 - 486 pages |
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... sensible of the impression : in touching , in tasting , and in smelling , we are sensible of the impression ; but not in seeing and hearing . We know indeed from experiments , that before we perceive a visible object , its image is ...
... sensible of the impression : in touching , in tasting , and in smelling , we are sensible of the impression ; but not in seeing and hearing . We know indeed from experiments , that before we perceive a visible object , its image is ...
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... sensible are perceived and remem- bered by means of sensible phantasms , and things intelligible by intelligible phantasms ; and that these phantasms have the form of the object without the matter , as the impression of a seal upon wax ...
... sensible are perceived and remem- bered by means of sensible phantasms , and things intelligible by intelligible phantasms ; and that these phantasms have the form of the object without the matter , as the impression of a seal upon wax ...
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... sensible of the impression ; that , for example , which is made upon the hand by a stone , upon the palate by an apricot , and upon the nostrils by a rose . It is otherwise in seeing and hearing ; for I am not sensible of the impression ...
... sensible of the impression ; that , for example , which is made upon the hand by a stone , upon the palate by an apricot , and upon the nostrils by a rose . It is otherwise in seeing and hearing ; for I am not sensible of the impression ...
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Lord Henry Home Kames James Robert Boyd. them , produced without any sensible organic impression . Their mixed nature and middle place between organic and intellectual pleasures , qualify them to associate with both . The pleasures of ...
Lord Henry Home Kames James Robert Boyd. them , produced without any sensible organic impression . Their mixed nature and middle place between organic and intellectual pleasures , qualify them to associate with both . The pleasures of ...
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... sensible of its extent and difficulty , to undertake it professedly , or to avow it as the chief purpose of the present work . 51. To censure works , not men , is the just prerogative of criticism ; and accordingly all personal censure ...
... sensible of its extent and difficulty , to undertake it professedly , or to avow it as the chief purpose of the present work . 51. To censure works , not men , is the just prerogative of criticism ; and accordingly all personal censure ...
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Page 94 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...
Page 56 - O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here ! Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 347 - 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 92 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 92 - Help me, Cassius, or I sink.' I, as ./Eneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear...
Page 213 - MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Page 20 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 349 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 146 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Page 349 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.