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... mean the pleasing result of well - balanced and duly proportioned affections ; and , when we speak of the beauty of the human form , we mean the pleasing re- sult of well - balanced and duly proportioned limbs and features . In both ...
... mean the pleasing result of well - balanced and duly proportioned affections ; and , when we speak of the beauty of the human form , we mean the pleasing re- sult of well - balanced and duly proportioned limbs and features . In both ...
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... means of it ; but other instinctive passions , which , according to the usual system of nature , should be still more remote from its influence . It has been ob- served that dogs , though wholly unacquainted with lions , will tremble ...
... means of it ; but other instinctive passions , which , according to the usual system of nature , should be still more remote from its influence . It has been ob- served that dogs , though wholly unacquainted with lions , will tremble ...
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... means of trains of associated ideas , to a vast distance from its source : but , abstracted from such sympathies , the pleasures of this sense , if plea- sures they may be called , seem to arise from gentle irritation ; which , if it be ...
... means of trains of associated ideas , to a vast distance from its source : but , abstracted from such sympathies , the pleasures of this sense , if plea- sures they may be called , seem to arise from gentle irritation ; which , if it be ...
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... means of which the conceptions of the mind operate upon the organs of the body involun- tarily and mechanically . It is observed by Sir Joshua Reynolds , that if a man born blind were to recover his sight , and the most beau- tiful ...
... means of which the conceptions of the mind operate upon the organs of the body involun- tarily and mechanically . It is observed by Sir Joshua Reynolds , that if a man born blind were to recover his sight , and the most beau- tiful ...
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... means , will afford similar evidence concerning the object . The author should feel shame in thus obtruding expla- nations , which , to every reader of liberal education , must appear useless and impertinent , had not a whole synod of ...
... means , will afford similar evidence concerning the object . The author should feel shame in thus obtruding expla- nations , which , to every reader of liberal education , must appear useless and impertinent , had not a whole synod of ...
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according acquired Æneid afford animals appear applied arises ascer association of ideas become blime and Pathetic body called cause CHAP character colour consequently degree delight display effect elegance employed equally excite expression faculty feel felt fræna Georgic gratification Greek habit hearing human Iliad Imagina imagination imitation impressions improved Perception inquiry instances irregular irritation Judg kind language less light and shadow malè mankind means ment mental sympathies merely metre mind modes nature never nevertheless notion objects observed olfactory nerves organs of sense pain painters painting Paradise Lost passions perceived perfect person picturesque Pindar pleasing pleasure poet poetry polished languages principle produced proportion prosody qualities quantity racter Rembrandt laughed sculpture sensation sensibility sentiments Sight smell smooth sound species style Sublime and Beautiful syllables taste temple of Vesta thing tints tion Titian tone touch turally variety verse visible whence wherefore words СНАР