The Spectator, Volume 6J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 - English essays |
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Beauty ; but ftill there will be fuch a Mixture of Delight in the very Difguft it gives us , as any of these three Qua- lifications are moft confpicuous and prevailing . BY Greatness , I do not only mean the Bulk of any fingle Object ...
Beauty ; but ftill there will be fuch a Mixture of Delight in the very Difguft it gives us , as any of these three Qua- lifications are moft confpicuous and prevailing . BY Greatness , I do not only mean the Bulk of any fingle Object ...
Page 67
... Beauty , which immediately diffu- fes a fecret Satisfaction and Complacency through the Imagination , and gives a Finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon . The very first Discovery of it ftrikes the Mind with an inward Joy ...
... Beauty , which immediately diffu- fes a fecret Satisfaction and Complacency through the Imagination , and gives a Finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon . The very first Discovery of it ftrikes the Mind with an inward Joy ...
Page 69
... Beauty that we find in the feveral 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 fecret Delight ...
... Beauty that we find in the feveral 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 fecret Delight ...
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