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... Perfect beauty , indeed , taking perfect in its most strict , and beauty in its most compre- hensive signification , ought to be equally pleas → ing to all ; but of this instances are scarcely to be found : for , as to taking them , or ...
... Perfect beauty , indeed , taking perfect in its most strict , and beauty in its most compre- hensive signification , ought to be equally pleas → ing to all ; but of this instances are scarcely to be found : for , as to taking them , or ...
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... perfect specimen of a perfect woman ? The late great physiologist , John Hunter , used to maintain ( and I think he proved it ) , that the African black was the true original man , and all the others only different varieties derived ...
... perfect specimen of a perfect woman ? The late great physiologist , John Hunter , used to maintain ( and I think he proved it ) , that the African black was the true original man , and all the others only different varieties derived ...
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... perfect , and analogous to our own . I know that butterflies , wasps , & c . do appear to be sensible of pleasure or pain , and even live and linger for a long time after their heads are off ; but then it does not appear that the heads ...
... perfect , and analogous to our own . I know that butterflies , wasps , & c . do appear to be sensible of pleasure or pain , and even live and linger for a long time after their heads are off ; but then it does not appear that the heads ...
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... perfect consistency . If we can once persuade ourselves that , because ideas have no resemblance to their material objects , they may have arisen in the mind without them , we may certainly believe or disbelieve the existence of those ...
... perfect consistency . If we can once persuade ourselves that , because ideas have no resemblance to their material objects , they may have arisen in the mind without them , we may certainly believe or disbelieve the existence of those ...
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... perfect ideas of the sublime . 6. That the irritation , produced in the mem- branes of the eye by vision , is proportioned to the quantity of light poured into it , we may perceive by the dilation and contraction of that membrane called ...
... perfect ideas of the sublime . 6. That the irritation , produced in the mem- branes of the eye by vision , is proportioned to the quantity of light poured into it , we may perceive by the dilation and contraction of that membrane called ...
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acquired Æneid afford animals appear arise Aristotle artist asso association of ideas become blime and Pathetic body called CHAP character colours composition consequently degree delight disgusting display effect elegance employed energy epic poetry equally exalted excite exhibited expression feeling felt fiction forms fræna Gothic gratification Grecian Greek habit hearing human Iliad images Imagina imitation impressions instances intercolumniations irregular irritation Judg kind language less light and shadow manner means ment merely metre mind modes nature neral never nevertheless objects observed organs of sense pain painters painting Paradise Lost passions perceived perfect person picturesque Pindar pleasing pleasure poet poetry principle produced proportion propriety prosody qualities racter Rembrandt laughed scenery sculpture sensation sensibility sentiments Sight Sir Joshua Reynolds soever species style Sublime and Beautiful taste Theocritus thing tints tion Titian tone tragedy tural ture variety verse Virgil whence wherefore words
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Page 352 - Be innocent of the knowledge , dearest chuck , Till thou applaud the deed. — Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 397 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 358 - To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way.
Page 357 - Archangel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek ; but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion, to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...
Page 9 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion: but for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure...
Page 371 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Page 396 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 116 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Page 357 - For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.
Page 396 - Berkley's roofs that ring, 55 Shrieks of an agonizing king! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs That tearst the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! 60 Amazement in his van, with Flight combined, And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind.