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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 Qualifications 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 Qualifications are moft confpicuous and prevailing . BY Greatness , I do not only mean the Bulk of any fingle Object ...
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BUT there is nothing that makes its Way more directly to the Soul than Beauty , which immediately diffufes a fecret Satisfaction and Complacency through the Imagination , and gives a Finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon .
BUT there is nothing that makes its Way more directly to the Soul than Beauty , which immediately diffufes a fecret Satisfaction and Complacency through the Imagination , and gives a Finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon .
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THERE is a fecond Kind of 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 ...
THERE is a fecond Kind of 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 ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 6 The Spectator, Sir Richard Steele |
| Contributors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 4, 2007 |
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