Elements of Criticism, Volume 1J. Thompson, 1819 - Aesthetics |
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... directing the train of thought . Taking a view of external objects , their inherent properties are not more remarkable , than the various relations that connect them together : Cause and effect , contiguity in time or in place , high ...
... directing the train of thought . Taking a view of external objects , their inherent properties are not more remarkable , than the various relations that connect them together : Cause and effect , contiguity in time or in place , high ...
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... directed to her as its object : a man , by injuring me , raises my resentment , and becomes thereby the object of my resentment . Thus the cause of a passion , and its object , are the same in different respects . An emotion on the ...
... directed to her as its object : a man , by injuring me , raises my resentment , and becomes thereby the object of my resentment . Thus the cause of a passion , and its object , are the same in different respects . An emotion on the ...
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Lord Henry Home Kames. cause each of them comprehends many particulars . The passions directed to general objects are commonly termed appetites , in contradistinction to passions directed to particular objects , which retain their proper ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. cause each of them comprehends many particulars . The passions directed to general objects are commonly termed appetites , in contradistinction to passions directed to particular objects , which retain their proper ...
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... directed to be- ings inanimate , animate , and rational : the emotion caused by a rational being , is out of measure stron- ger than any caused by an animal without reason ; and an emotion raised by such an animal , is stron- ger than ...
... directed to be- ings inanimate , animate , and rational : the emotion caused by a rational being , is out of measure stron- ger than any caused by an animal without reason ; and an emotion raised by such an animal , is stron- ger than ...
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... directed to the author : and beside his well - known passion , a separate feeling is raised in the spectator ; which may be called an emotion of courage ; because , while under its influence , he is conscious of a boldness and ...
... directed to the author : and beside his well - known passion , a separate feeling is raised in the spectator ; which may be called an emotion of courage ; because , while under its influence , he is conscious of a boldness and ...
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Page 186 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 239 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Page 79 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me; And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page 74 - Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii: — Look, in this place, ran Cassius* dagger through: See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd And, as he pluck'd his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar...
Page 411 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 405 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 406 - Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, 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!
Page 236 - It must not be : if Cassio do remain, ' He hath a daily beauty in his life, That makes me ugly ; and, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him ; there stand I in much peril : No, he must die : — But so, I hear him coming.
Page 400 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 401 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...