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... continued 91 v . Power 94 VI . Privation 99 VII . Vastness 100 VIII . Infinity 101 IX . Succession and Uniformity 102 • x . Magnitude in Building 103 XI . Infinity in pleasing Objects > 104 XII . Difficulty ib . XIII . Magnificence 105 ...
... continued 91 v . Power 94 VI . Privation 99 VII . Vastness 100 VIII . Infinity 101 IX . Succession and Uniformity 102 • x . Magnitude in Building 103 XI . Infinity in pleasing Objects > 104 XII . Difficulty ib . XIII . Magnificence 105 ...
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... Continued • v . How the Sublime is produced 145 146 147 VI . How Pain can be a Cause of Delight ib . VII . Exercise necessary for the finer Organs 148 VIII . Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 149 IX . Why ...
... Continued • v . How the Sublime is produced 145 146 147 VI . How Pain can be a Cause of Delight ib . VII . Exercise necessary for the finer Organs 148 VIII . Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 149 IX . Why ...
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... continued with much fury , and with various success . This ends in the retreat of the queen , with scarce a third of the troops em- ployed in the expedition ; an expedition which , at this rate , must have cost two millions of souls on ...
... continued with much fury , and with various success . This ends in the retreat of the queen , with scarce a third of the troops em- ployed in the expedition ; an expedition which , at this rate , must have cost two millions of souls on ...
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... CONTINUED . THERE are two verses in Horace's Art of Poetry , that seem to contradict this opinion ; for which reason I shall take a little more pains in clearing it up . The verses are , Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures , Quam ...
... CONTINUED . THERE are two verses in Horace's Art of Poetry , that seem to contradict this opinion ; for which reason I shall take a little more pains in clearing it up . The verses are , Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures , Quam ...
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... continued to any indefinite number , that the imagination meets no check which may hinder its extending them at pleasure . Whenever we repeat any idea frequently , the mind , by a sort of mechanism , repeats it long after the first ...
... continued to any indefinite number , that the imagination meets no check which may hinder its extending them at pleasure . Whenever we repeat any idea frequently , the mind , by a sort of mechanism , repeats it long after the first ...
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