Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... equally rare to find one fo low in feeling , as not to be capable of inftruc- tion . And yet , to refine our tafte with re- fpect to beauties of art or of nature , is scarce endeavoured in any feminary of learn- ing a lamentable defect ...
... equally rare to find one fo low in feeling , as not to be capable of inftruc- tion . And yet , to refine our tafte with re- fpect to beauties of art or of nature , is scarce endeavoured in any feminary of learn- ing a lamentable defect ...
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... equally distant from the tur- bulence of paffion , and languor of inaction ; and by that tone are perfectly well qualified , not only to revive the spirits when funk by fenfual gratification , but alfo to relax them when overstrained in ...
... equally distant from the tur- bulence of paffion , and languor of inaction ; and by that tone are perfectly well qualified , not only to revive the spirits when funk by fenfual gratification , but alfo to relax them when overstrained in ...
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... equally in natural founds , fuch as the finging of birds , or the murmuring of a brook . Nature here , the artificer of the object as well as of the percipient , hath fuited them to each other with great accuracy . But of a poem , a ...
... equally in natural founds , fuch as the finging of birds , or the murmuring of a brook . Nature here , the artificer of the object as well as of the percipient , hath fuited them to each other with great accuracy . But of a poem , a ...
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... equally pleafant and familiar : we proceed gradually from the fimpler to the more involved cafes and in a due courfe of discipline , custom , which improves all our faculties , beftows acuteness upon thofe of reafon , fufficient to ...
... equally pleafant and familiar : we proceed gradually from the fimpler to the more involved cafes and in a due courfe of discipline , custom , which improves all our faculties , beftows acuteness upon thofe of reafon , fufficient to ...
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... equally affected with both . Such a perfon muft neceffarily have a great command of ideas , because they are introduced by any relation indifferently ; and the flighter relations , being without number , muft furnish ideas without end ...
... equally affected with both . Such a perfon muft neceffarily have a great command of ideas , because they are introduced by any relation indifferently ; and the flighter relations , being without number , muft furnish ideas without end ...
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