 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1786 - 380 pages
...imperfeflions •with diftike. This definition may very properly apply to the faculty which we exercife in judging and deciding upon the works of others ; but how does it apply. to the faculty exercifed by thofe who produced thofe works ? How does it ferve <•-- to THE OBSERVER. N° S4i to... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...writing, and shewn the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, 'which discerns the beauties of an author with plea' sure, and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...definition, which I before observed, applies only to an acquired taste : He had the ' faculty of discerning the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike : He had also the faculty of imitating what he discerned; so that I cannot verify what I have advanced... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...writing, and shewn the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul, which discerns...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...omission of the 410th., ending with the 42lst. In the first and preparatory Paper, he defines Taste, " that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and his imperfections with dislike." He then proceeds to consider at large the Pleasures of Imagination... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...shewn the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be c that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties...with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1817 - 432 pages
...definition, which I before observed applies only to. an acquired taste: He had the ' faculty of discerning the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike : He had also the faculty of imitating what he discerned ; so that I cannot verify what I have advanced... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...whom they were borrowed. priety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 370 pages
...propose to treat of it in its intellectual construction only, and in this sense Mr. Addison defines it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. Agreeably to this, we may observe in all literary and enlightened nations, their earliest authors and... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...writing, and shown the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns...with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
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I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike. 
