Poems on Several Subjects, Volume 1G. Pearch, 1769 - Classical poetry |
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... mind ; partly from the complicated ingre- dients , of which particular objects are found to confift when examined separately ; but principally , no doubt , from the degrees of excellence and defect exhibited , not merely in fome ...
... mind ; partly from the complicated ingre- dients , of which particular objects are found to confift when examined separately ; but principally , no doubt , from the degrees of excellence and defect exhibited , not merely in fome ...
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... mind is converfant . In the Sciences it judgeth of the precision , importance , and difpofition of fentiment , character or events , as in what we denominate the Fine Arts , it decides principally of imita- tive beauty , arifing from ...
... mind is converfant . In the Sciences it judgeth of the precision , importance , and difpofition of fentiment , character or events , as in what we denominate the Fine Arts , it decides principally of imita- tive beauty , arifing from ...
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... penetration equal to the moft perplexing refearches . In both thefe cafes we would naturally pronounce the mind of the Writer to be unequal to its work . 3 2 ANOTHER , ANOTHER , and not perhaps lefs decifive , test of PRE FAC E. iii.
... penetration equal to the moft perplexing refearches . In both thefe cafes we would naturally pronounce the mind of the Writer to be unequal to its work . 3 2 ANOTHER , ANOTHER , and not perhaps lefs decifive , test of PRE FAC E. iii.
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... mind unable to diftinguifh the more , from the lefs important branches of its fubject , and giving upon the whole a proof of its own narrow investigation , instead of an accurate and confiftent detail of the performance fub- mitted to ...
... mind unable to diftinguifh the more , from the lefs important branches of its fubject , and giving upon the whole a proof of its own narrow investigation , instead of an accurate and confiftent detail of the performance fub- mitted to ...
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... mind of the reader , appears in the illuftration not to have been feparated by the Critic , from others with which it either stands in no imme- diate Connection , or which tend to weaken its courfe . Thus , when the Hero of the Iliad is ...
... mind of the reader , appears in the illuftration not to have been feparated by the Critic , from others with which it either stands in no imme- diate Connection , or which tend to weaken its courfe . Thus , when the Hero of the Iliad is ...
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