A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of TasteSherwood, Jones, & Company, 1823 - 408 страници |
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... forms of intellectual being placed beyond the ex- pansive range of its dominion - a dominion , how- ever , the precise limits of which seem not as yet distinctly marked out by the critics , though it has been frequently made the subject ...
... forms of intellectual being placed beyond the ex- pansive range of its dominion - a dominion , how- ever , the precise limits of which seem not as yet distinctly marked out by the critics , though it has been frequently made the subject ...
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... form and features of things through all the various and diversified aspects in which they present themselves to our view . If we are to be deterred by the ill success of others , what becomes of that Emulation , whose keen eye Forward ...
... form and features of things through all the various and diversified aspects in which they present themselves to our view . If we are to be deterred by the ill success of others , what becomes of that Emulation , whose keen eye Forward ...
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... forms of beauty to which only a refined and cultivated taste can ever arrive . This refined and cultivated taste can , therefore , be acquired only by men who have originally a great portion of natural sensibility , however this ...
... forms of beauty to which only a refined and cultivated taste can ever arrive . This refined and cultivated taste can , therefore , be acquired only by men who have originally a great portion of natural sensibility , however this ...
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... forms of beauty , so that taste is not necessarily connected with sensibility in any of its degrees ; and he who gives himself this habit of attention will soon find his natural sensibility less " feel- ingly alive to each fine impulse ...
... forms of beauty , so that taste is not necessarily connected with sensibility in any of its degrees ; and he who gives himself this habit of attention will soon find his natural sensibility less " feel- ingly alive to each fine impulse ...
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... form or fea- ture in beauty without remarking and contem- plating it frequently , and this frequency of con- templation weakens the pleasure of the effect . " I despair , " says Mr. Burke , the most celebrated writer on the subject of ...
... form or fea- ture in beauty without remarking and contem- plating it frequently , and this frequency of con- templation weakens the pleasure of the effect . " I despair , " says Mr. Burke , the most celebrated writer on the subject of ...
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Страница 107 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Страница 202 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday...
Страница 330 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Страница i - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Страница 56 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
Страница 156 - O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high ; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Страница 141 - THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF.
Страница 333 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Страница 315 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Страница 243 - Or seeks his wat'ring in the well-known flood, To quench his thirst, and cool his fiery blood : He swims luxuriant in the liquid plain, And o'er his shoulder flows his waving mane : He neighs, he snorts, he bears his head on high; Before his ample chest the frothy waters fly.