Elements of CriticismA.S. Barnes & Company, 1855 - 486 páginas |
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... occasion for any act of the will . If we cannot specify any idea , I next demand , how can a person will , or to what purpose , if there be nothing in view ? We cannot form a conception of such a thing . If this argument need ...
... occasion for any act of the will . If we cannot specify any idea , I next demand , how can a person will , or to what purpose , if there be nothing in view ? We cannot form a conception of such a thing . If this argument need ...
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... occasion in the same manner painful emotions . 76. Sensible beings affect us remarkably by their actions . Some actions raise pleasant emotions in the spectator , without the least reflection ; such as graceful motion , and genteel ...
... occasion in the same manner painful emotions . 76. Sensible beings affect us remarkably by their actions . Some actions raise pleasant emotions in the spectator , without the least reflection ; such as graceful motion , and genteel ...
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... occasion of a pleasant or painful emotion , of the same kind with that produced when the object was present : the only difference is , that an idea being fainter than an original percep- tion , the pleasure or pain produced by the ...
... occasion of a pleasant or painful emotion , of the same kind with that produced when the object was present : the only difference is , that an idea being fainter than an original percep- tion , the pleasure or pain produced by the ...
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... occasion . This feeling is overlooked by writers upon ethics ; but a man may be convinced of its reality , by attentively watching his own heart when he thinks 96. In what cases do joy and sorrow rise to the greatest height ? The causes ...
... occasion . This feeling is overlooked by writers upon ethics ; but a man may be convinced of its reality , by attentively watching his own heart when he thinks 96. In what cases do joy and sorrow rise to the greatest height ? The causes ...
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... occasion , is greedily seized ; and the vague feeling is con- verted into a real passion of gratitude : in such a state , favors are returned double . 99. In like manner , a courageous action produceth in a spectator the passion of ...
... occasion , is greedily seized ; and the vague feeling is con- verted into a real passion of gratitude : in such a state , favors are returned double . 99. In like manner , a courageous action produceth in a spectator the passion of ...
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Página 59 - 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...
Página 261 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules : within a month ? Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Página 413 - 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.
Página 411 - 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 345 - 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...
Página 33 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Página 411 - I thought, that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment : But whate'er you are> That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time...
Página 154 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Página 302 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 461 - 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 Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...