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... characters , actions , or manners of men . Now the pleasure we experience from such imitations or representations , is founded on mere taste ; but to judge , whether they may be pro- perly executed , belongs to the understanding , which ...
... characters , actions , or manners of men . Now the pleasure we experience from such imitations or representations , is founded on mere taste ; but to judge , whether they may be pro- perly executed , belongs to the understanding , which ...
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... characters from nature , the corres- pondence of the sentiments to the characters , and of the style to the sentiments . The pleasure , which is derived from a poem so conducted , is felt or enjoyed by taste , as an internal sense ; but ...
... characters from nature , the corres- pondence of the sentiments to the characters , and of the style to the sentiments . The pleasure , which is derived from a poem so conducted , is felt or enjoyed by taste , as an internal sense ; but ...
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... character more precise and distinctly marked , than any other of the pleasures of the imagination , and because it coincides more directly with our main subject . The simplest form of external grandeur is seen in the vast and boundless ...
... character more precise and distinctly marked , than any other of the pleasures of the imagination , and because it coincides more directly with our main subject . The simplest form of external grandeur is seen in the vast and boundless ...
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... character , but such as produce im pressions of pain and danger . Many terrible ob jects are indeed highly sublime ; nor does grandeur refuse alliance with the idea of danger . But the sublime does not consist wholly in modes of danger ...
... character , but such as produce im pressions of pain and danger . Many terrible ob jects are indeed highly sublime ; nor does grandeur refuse alliance with the idea of danger . But the sublime does not consist wholly in modes of danger ...
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... character ; and a beautiful theorem in mathematics . Colour seems to afford the simplest instance of beauty . Association of ideas , it is probable , has some influence on the pleasure , which we receive from colours . Green , for ...
... character ; and a beautiful theorem in mathematics . Colour seems to afford the simplest instance of beauty . Association of ideas , it is probable , has some influence on the pleasure , which we receive from colours . Green , for ...
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