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... opposite course in the analytic method , we have a sensible pleasure , like mounting upward , which is not felt in the other . The analytic method is more agreeable to the imagination ; the other method will be preferred by those only ...
... opposite course in the analytic method , we have a sensible pleasure , like mounting upward , which is not felt in the other . The analytic method is more agreeable to the imagination ; the other method will be preferred by those only ...
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... opposite course . Elevation touches the mind no less than grandeur ; and in raising the mind to elevated objects , there is a sensible pleasure . The course of nature , however , has still a greater influence than eleva- tion : and ...
... opposite course . Elevation touches the mind no less than grandeur ; and in raising the mind to elevated objects , there is a sensible pleasure . The course of nature , however , has still a greater influence than eleva- tion : and ...
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... opposite to the former , such as dull- ness , peevishness , inhumanity , cowardice , occasion , in the same man- ner , painful emotions . Sensible beings affect us remarkably by their actions . Some actions raise pleasant emotions in ...
... opposite to the former , such as dull- ness , peevishness , inhumanity , cowardice , occasion , in the same man- ner , painful emotions . Sensible beings affect us remarkably by their actions . Some actions raise pleasant emotions in ...
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... opposite effects . Pity , by interesting us strongly for the person in distress , must consequently inflame our resentment against the author of the distress : for , in general , the affection we have for any man , generates in us good ...
... opposite effects . Pity , by interesting us strongly for the person in distress , must consequently inflame our resentment against the author of the distress : for , in general , the affection we have for any man , generates in us good ...
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... opposite example . A rotten carcass is disagreeable , and raises in the spectator a painful emotion : the disagreeableness is a quality of the object ; the pain is a quality of the emotion produced by it . In a word , agreeable and ...
... opposite example . A rotten carcass is disagreeable , and raises in the spectator a painful emotion : the disagreeableness is a quality of the object ; the pain is a quality of the emotion produced by it . In a word , agreeable and ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.