The Spectator, Volume 5D. Appleton, 1853 |
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Page 34
... beauty ; but still there will be such a mixture of delight in the very disgust it gives us , as any of these three qualifications are most conspicuous and prevailing . By greatness , I do not only mean the bulk of any single object ...
... beauty ; but still there will be such a mixture of delight in the very disgust it gives us , as any of these three qualifications are most conspicuous and prevailing . By greatness , I do not only mean the bulk of any single object ...
Page 36
... beauty , which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination , and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon . The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy , and ...
... beauty , which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination , and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon . The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy , and ...
Page 37
... beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature , which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species , but is apt however to raise in us a secret de- light ...
... beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature , which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species , but is apt however to raise in us a secret de- light ...
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