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... necessarily devolves on every writer who would redeem his subject from popular and philosophical error . Without it the public is not qualified to judge between him and the writers to whom he stands opposed ; and different theories may ...
... necessarily devolves on every writer who would redeem his subject from popular and philosophical error . Without it the public is not qualified to judge between him and the writers to whom he stands opposed ; and different theories may ...
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... necessarily en- counter in his first appearance before the public , I thought it more prudent to publish my " Disserta- tion on Taste " by itself . This , perhaps , may have , in a few instances , ( though I am not now aware of any ) ...
... necessarily en- counter in his first appearance before the public , I thought it more prudent to publish my " Disserta- tion on Taste " by itself . This , perhaps , may have , in a few instances , ( though I am not now aware of any ) ...
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... necessarily implies a knowledge of the other ; and when we say it is difficult to define taste , we only acknowledge that it is difficult to tell in what beauty consists . If the qualities of beauty were fixed and invariable , an ...
... necessarily implies a knowledge of the other ; and when we say it is difficult to define taste , we only acknowledge that it is difficult to tell in what beauty consists . If the qualities of beauty were fixed and invariable , an ...
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... necessarily exercised in the cultivation of taste , the subject of beauty will necessarily belong to the second part of this work . It is of the first importance to set out with a just view of our subject , as a leading error is ...
... necessarily exercised in the cultivation of taste , the subject of beauty will necessarily belong to the second part of this work . It is of the first importance to set out with a just view of our subject , as a leading error is ...
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Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot. fundamental error , must necessarily affect all the subdivisions of the theory that arise from it , as they must owe their truth or falsehood to the principle from which they arise , and on which they ...
Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot. fundamental error , must necessarily affect all the subdivisions of the theory that arise from it , as they must owe their truth or falsehood to the principle from which they arise , and on which they ...
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Page 107 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 202 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday...
Page 330 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 125 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 56 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
Page 156 - O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high ; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 141 - THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF.
Page 333 - 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 315 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Page 240 - ... kinds of thoughts which are carefully to be avoided. The first are such as are affected and unnatural ; the second, such as are mean and vulgar. As for the first kind of thoughts, we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : he has none of those trifling...