THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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Page 73
... striking colours , this shocking picture of the degeneracy and wretched- ness of human nature , in that part which is vul- garly thought its happiest and most amiable state . You know from what originals I could copy fuch pictures ...
... striking colours , this shocking picture of the degeneracy and wretched- ness of human nature , in that part which is vul- garly thought its happiest and most amiable state . You know from what originals I could copy fuch pictures ...
Page 110
... striking and af- fecting incident . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of imagination , the fame parity may be observed . It is true , that one man is charmed with Don Bellianis , and ...
... striking and af- fecting incident . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of imagination , the fame parity may be observed . It is true , that one man is charmed with Don Bellianis , and ...
Page 115
... striking objects make but a faint and obfcure im- preffion . There are others so continually in the agitation of grofs and merely sensual pleasures , or so occupied in the low drudgery of avarice , or fo heated in the chace of honours ...
... striking objects make but a faint and obfcure im- preffion . There are others so continually in the agitation of grofs and merely sensual pleasures , or so occupied in the low drudgery of avarice , or fo heated in the chace of honours ...
Page 127
... striking appearance of the man whom Homer fupposes to have just escaped an imminent danger , the fort of mixed passion of terrour and surprise with which he affects the spectators , paints very strongly the manner in which we find ...
... striking appearance of the man whom Homer fupposes to have just escaped an imminent danger , the fort of mixed passion of terrour and surprise with which he affects the spectators , paints very strongly the manner in which we find ...
Page 131
... striking than those which Menelaus raises of the calamitous fate of his friends , and his own manner of feeling it . He owns , indeed , that he often gives himself some intermiffion from such melancholy reflections ; but he observes ...
... striking than those which Menelaus raises of the calamitous fate of his friends , and his own manner of feeling it . He owns , indeed , that he often gives himself some intermiffion from such melancholy reflections ; but he observes ...
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