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ment , as I have said , is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree ; the inferior effects are admiration , reverence , and respect . SECTION II TERROR and heighten the appetite which he has in common with all other animals ...
ment , as I have said , is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree ; the inferior effects are admiration , reverence , and respect . SECTION II TERROR and heighten the appetite which he has in common with all other animals ...
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For , certainly , there are ways and modes wherein the same quantity of extension shall produce greater effects than it ... Of these the length strikes least ; a hundred yards of even ground will never work such an effect as a tower a ...
For , certainly , there are ways and modes wherein the same quantity of extension shall produce greater effects than it ... Of these the length strikes least ; a hundred yards of even ground will never work such an effect as a tower a ...
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It is certain that on the theater the representation has always the effect of reality ; yet it has not altogether that ... is stronger than the consolation which arises from an internal reflection , they are the effects and symptoms ...
It is certain that on the theater the representation has always the effect of reality ; yet it has not altogether that ... is stronger than the consolation which arises from an internal reflection , they are the effects and symptoms ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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