The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... taste of magnificence ; the first grand error of which is to imagine that greatness consists in the size and dj- mensions , instead of the proportion and harmony of the whole , ver . 99 ; and the second , either in joining together ...
... taste of magnificence ; the first grand error of which is to imagine that greatness consists in the size and dj- mensions , instead of the proportion and harmony of the whole , ver . 99 ; and the second , either in joining together ...
Page 574
... taste or judgment in other arts and sciences ? For in each place the force on Nature is used only for its redress . If a natural good taste be not already formed in us , why should not we endeavor to form it and be- come natural ? " I ...
... taste or judgment in other arts and sciences ? For in each place the force on Nature is used only for its redress . If a natural good taste be not already formed in us , why should not we endeavor to form it and be- come natural ? " I ...
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... tastes . It is very natural , and even quite necessary , to extend this axiom to mental as well as bodily taste , and thus common sense , which is so often at variance with philosophy , especially with the sceptical kind , is found , in ...
... tastes . It is very natural , and even quite necessary , to extend this axiom to mental as well as bodily taste , and thus common sense , which is so often at variance with philosophy , especially with the sceptical kind , is found , in ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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