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Page 7
... firft place , a thorough acquaintance with the prin- ciples of the fine arts , redoubles the pleasure we derive from them . To the man who refigns himself to feeling without interpofing any judg- ment , poetry , mufic , painting , are ...
... firft place , a thorough acquaintance with the prin- ciples of the fine arts , redoubles the pleasure we derive from them . To the man who refigns himself to feeling without interpofing any judg- ment , poetry , mufic , painting , are ...
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... from being confident of meriting no cenfure , en- tertains not even the flighteft hope of fuch per- fection . Amusement was at firft the fole aim of his his inquiries : proceeding from one particular to another , 14 INTRODUCTION .
... from being confident of meriting no cenfure , en- tertains not even the flighteft hope of fuch per- fection . Amusement was at firft the fole aim of his his inquiries : proceeding from one particular to another , 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... firft fourteen lines of ode 7. lib . 1. he mentions feveral towns and dif- tricts , more to the taste of fome than of others : in the remainder of the ode , Plancus is exhorted to drown his cares in wine . Having narrowly escaped death ...
... firft fourteen lines of ode 7. lib . 1. he mentions feveral towns and dif- tricts , more to the taste of fome than of others : in the remainder of the ode , Plancus is exhorted to drown his cares in wine . Having narrowly escaped death ...
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... firft fatire , book 1. is fo deformed by want of connection , as upon the whole to be scarce agreeable : it commences with an important queftion , How it happens that people , though much fatisfied with themselves , are feldom fo with ...
... firft fatire , book 1. is fo deformed by want of connection , as upon the whole to be scarce agreeable : it commences with an important queftion , How it happens that people , though much fatisfied with themselves , are feldom fo with ...
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... firft of thefe is confined to fuch causes of emotion or paffion as are the most common and the moft general ; yet upon examination I find this fingle part fo extenfive , as to require a fub- divifion into feveral fections . Human nature ...
... firft of thefe is confined to fuch causes of emotion or paffion as are the most common and the moft general ; yet upon examination I find this fingle part fo extenfive , as to require a fub- divifion into feveral fections . Human nature ...
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