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... producing a serious passion. In all these subjects poetry is very happy. Its apparitions, its chimeras, its harpies ... produce a similar effect from a mechanical cause, I know of nothing sublime, which is not some modification of power ...
... producing a serious passion. In all these subjects poetry is very happy. Its apparitions, its chimeras, its harpies ... produce a similar effect from a mechanical cause, I know of nothing sublime, which is not some modification of power ...
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... produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this. SECTION XIII. MAGNIFICENCE. Magnificence is ... produce an appearance of infinity by your disorder, you will have disorder only without magnificence. There are ...
... produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this. SECTION XIII. MAGNIFICENCE. Magnificence is ... produce an appearance of infinity by your disorder, you will have disorder only without magnificence. There are ...
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... produce an idea of the sublime, ought rather to be dark and gloomy, and this for two reasons; the first is, that darkness itself on other occasions is known by experience to have a greater effect on the passions than light. The second ...
... produce an idea of the sublime, ought rather to be dark and gloomy, and this for two reasons; the first is, that darkness itself on other occasions is known by experience to have a greater effect on the passions than light. The second ...
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Edmund Burke. strong red, which is cheerful) are unfit to produce grand images. An immense mountain covered with a ... produced, and that in every particular; for it ought to be observed, that this melancholy kind of greatness, though it ...
Edmund Burke. strong red, which is cheerful) are unfit to produce grand images. An immense mountain covered with a ... produced, and that in every particular; for it ought to be observed, that this melancholy kind of greatness, though it ...
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... produce the same or a similar effect on the mind, and on examination they are found to agree in some of their ... produced by different or opposite measures and relations; or if these measures and relations may exist, and yet the effect ...
... produce the same or a similar effect on the mind, and on examination they are found to agree in some of their ... produced by different or opposite measures and relations; or if these measures and relations may exist, and yet the effect ...
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