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... of taste , and the perception of the Sublime and the Beautiful , exist , in a greater or less degree , in every mind ; and as every man fami- liar with the subject , must be sensible that English 6 EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... of taste , and the perception of the Sublime and the Beautiful , exist , in a greater or less degree , in every mind ; and as every man fami- liar with the subject , must be sensible that English 6 EDITOR'S PREFACE .
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Lord Henry Home Kames Abraham Mills. liar with the subject , must be sensible that English literature is enriched with its full share of the most exquisite productions , both in poetry and prose ; so it would seem to follow , that if ...
Lord Henry Home Kames Abraham Mills. liar with the subject , must be sensible that English literature is enriched with its full share of the most exquisite productions , both in poetry and prose ; so it would seem to follow , that if ...
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... Sensible of the impression in touch , taste , and smell - In seeing and hearing not sensible of it - The pleasures of the eye and the ear occupy a middle rank - Other valu- able properties of the pleasures of the eye and the ear besides ...
... Sensible of the impression in touch , taste , and smell - In seeing and hearing not sensible of it - The pleasures of the eye and the ear occupy a middle rank - Other valu- able properties of the pleasures of the eye and the ear besides ...
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... sensible organic impression . Their mixt nature , and middle place between organic and intellectual pleasures , qualify them to associate with both . Beauty heightens all the organic feelings , as well as the intellectual : harmony ...
... sensible organic impression . Their mixt nature , and middle place between organic and intellectual pleasures , qualify them to associate with both . Beauty heightens all the organic feelings , as well as the intellectual : harmony ...
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... sensible of the organic impression , is prepared for enjoying internal objects where there cannot be an organic impres- sion . Thus the Author of nature , by qualifying the human mind for a succession of enjoyments from low to high ...
... sensible of the organic impression , is prepared for enjoying internal objects where there cannot be an organic impres- sion . Thus the Author of nature , by qualifying the human mind for a succession of enjoyments from low to high ...
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accent action Æneid agreeable appear beauty blank verse Cæsar Chap circumstance color congruity connected degree Demetrius Phalereus dignity disagreeable distinguished distress effect elevation emotion raised Eneid epic epic poetry Euripides example expression external signs feeling figure Fingal foregoing garden give grandeur grief habit hand heav'n Hence Henry IV Hexameter Hudibras human ideas Iliad imagination impression instances Jane Shore Julius Cæsar kind language less manner means melody mind motion Mourning Bride nature never object observation occasion ornaments Othello painful Paradise Lost passion pause peculiar perceived perceptions person pleasant emotion pleasure poem produce pronounced proper proportion propriety qualities reader reason relation relish remarkable resemblance respect rhyme Richard II ridicule rule scarcely scene sense sensible sentiments Shakspeare short syllables sight simile sion sound spectator Spondees taste termed thee things thou thought tion tone tragedy uniformity variety verse words writer
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Página 143 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 371 - And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up, And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Página 397 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 112 - 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.
Página 445 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 406 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 405 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Página 226 - I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ; They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh : But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool ; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
Página 388 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 377 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.