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... principles 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 .
... principles 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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... principles of the fine The man who aspires to be a critic in these arts must pierce still deeper . He must acquire a clear perception of what objects are lofty , what low , what proper or improper , what manly , and what mean or trivial ...
... principles of the fine The man who aspires to be a critic in these arts must pierce still deeper . He must acquire a clear perception of what objects are lofty , what low , what proper or improper , what manly , and what mean or trivial ...
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... principles , we can pronounce with certainty that it is correct ; otherwise , that it is incorrect , and perhaps whimsical . Thus the fine arts , like morals , become a rational science ; and , like morals , may be cultivated to a high ...
... principles , we can pronounce with certainty that it is correct ; otherwise , that it is incorrect , and perhaps whimsical . Thus the fine arts , like morals , become a rational science ; and , like morals , may be cultivated to a high ...
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Lord Henry Home Kames Abraham Mills. rational principles , furnishes elegant subjects for conversation , and prepares us for acting in the social state with dignity and propriety . The science of rational criticism tends to improve the ...
Lord Henry Home Kames Abraham Mills. rational principles , furnishes elegant subjects for conversation , and prepares us for acting in the social state with dignity and propriety . The science of rational criticism tends to improve the ...
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... principles , nor less submissive to authority , than it was originally . Bossu , a celebrated French critic , gives many rules ; but can discover no better founda- tion for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and Virgil ...
... principles , nor less submissive to authority , than it was originally . Bossu , a celebrated French critic , gives many rules ; but can discover no better founda- tion for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and Virgil ...
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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.