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Page 204
... TASTE connected with Improvement in VIRTUE . There are indeed few good difpofi- tions of any kind with which the im- provement of tafte is not more or lefs connected . A cultivated tafte increases fenfibility to all the tender and ...
... TASTE connected with Improvement in VIRTUE . There are indeed few good difpofi- tions of any kind with which the im- provement of tafte is not more or lefs connected . A cultivated tafte increases fenfibility to all the tender and ...
Page 263
... taste of their au- thors : and being able to write in verfe upon occafion , I can affure you , is no difadvantage to profe ; for without re- lifhing the one , a man muft never pre- tend to any taste of the other . Tafte is a metaphor ...
... taste of their au- thors : and being able to write in verfe upon occafion , I can affure you , is no difadvantage to profe ; for without re- lifhing the one , a man muft never pre- tend to any taste of the other . Tafte is a metaphor ...
Page 395
... taste or smell ; Non magis arte tra- ditur , quam guftus aut odor ; unless he meant , that fome perfons are fo ftupid , and have fo little ufe of their judgment , as might tempt one to believe that it was in reality the gift of nature ...
... taste or smell ; Non magis arte tra- ditur , quam guftus aut odor ; unless he meant , that fome perfons are fo ftupid , and have fo little ufe of their judgment , as might tempt one to believe that it was in reality the gift of nature ...
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Diversity of Geniuses | 36 |
The Manners of a Bookfeller | 42 |
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