Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1763 |
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Page 7
... betwixt a cause and its effect , a whole and its parts , we require that the things be fuited to each other in the strict- eft manner : where the relation is flight , or accidental , as among things jumbled together in the fame place ...
... betwixt a cause and its effect , a whole and its parts , we require that the things be fuited to each other in the strict- eft manner : where the relation is flight , or accidental , as among things jumbled together in the fame place ...
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... betwixt ferifible beings and their thoughts , words , and actions . In order to give a full view of this sub- ject , I fhall trace it through fome of the moft confiderable relations . The relation of a part to the whole , being ...
... betwixt ferifible beings and their thoughts , words , and actions . In order to give a full view of this sub- ject , I fhall trace it through fome of the moft confiderable relations . The relation of a part to the whole , being ...
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... betwixt a paf- fion and its gratification , feems not con- formable to the analogy of nature . In looking about for a folution , I reflect up- on what is laid down above , that an im- proper action , not only moves our con- tempt for ...
... betwixt a paf- fion and its gratification , feems not con- formable to the analogy of nature . In looking about for a folution , I reflect up- on what is laid down above , that an im- proper action , not only moves our con- tempt for ...
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... betwixt rifible and ridiculous . Quintilian is fenfible of this diftinction ; but has not attempted to explain it . Luckily this fubject lies no longer in obfcurity : a rifible object pro- duceth an emotion of laughter merely || : a ...
... betwixt rifible and ridiculous . Quintilian is fenfible of this diftinction ; but has not attempted to explain it . Luckily this fubject lies no longer in obfcurity : a rifible object pro- duceth an emotion of laughter merely || : a ...
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... betwixt the fubject and the manner of handling it , is what produces the ri- dicule and therefore , in a compofition of this kind , no image profeffedly ludi- crous ought to have quarter ; because fuch images destroy the contraft ...
... betwixt the fubject and the manner of handling it , is what produces the ri- dicule and therefore , in a compofition of this kind , no image profeffedly ludi- crous ought to have quarter ; because fuch images destroy the contraft ...
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