The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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Page 536
... object of sensation one source of ideas.— First . Our senses , conversant about particular sen- sible objects , do convey into the mind several dis- tinct perceptions of things , according to those vari- ous ways wherein those objects ...
... object of sensation one source of ideas.— First . Our senses , conversant about particular sen- sible objects , do convey into the mind several dis- tinct perceptions of things , according to those vari- ous ways wherein those objects ...
Page 556
... objects , as histories , fables , and contemplations of nature . I have in this paper , by way of introduction , settled the notion of those pleasures of the imagina- tion which are the subject of my present under- taking and endeavored ...
... objects , as histories , fables , and contemplations of nature . I have in this paper , by way of introduction , settled the notion of those pleasures of the imagina- tion which are the subject of my present under- taking and endeavored ...
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... objects themselves but powers to produce sensations in us by means of their primary qualities . In The Spectator Addison stated this theory and its source directly : I have here supposed that my reader is ac- quainted with that great ...
... objects themselves but powers to produce sensations in us by means of their primary qualities . In The Spectator Addison stated this theory and its source directly : I have here supposed that my reader is ac- quainted with that great ...
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Alexander Pope | 15 |
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