Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, المجلد 1Thomas Kirk, 1807 - 384 من الصفحات |
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... seems plainly to have pointed out this useful pur- pose to which the pleasures of taste may be applied , by inter- posing them in a middle station between the pleasures of sense , and those of pure intellect . We were not designed to ...
... seems plainly to have pointed out this useful pur- pose to which the pleasures of taste may be applied , by inter- posing them in a middle station between the pleasures of sense , and those of pure intellect . We were not designed to ...
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... seems more akin to a feel- ing of sense , and to a process of the understanding ; and ac- cordingly from an external sense it has borrowed its name ; that sense by which we receive and distinguish the pleasures of food having , in ...
... seems more akin to a feel- ing of sense , and to a process of the understanding ; and ac- cordingly from an external sense it has borrowed its name ; that sense by which we receive and distinguish the pleasures of food having , in ...
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... seems to include Taste ( for which , in the sense which we now give to that word , the ancients appear to have had no distinct name ) under which he calls judicium . “ Locus de judicio , meá " quidem opinione adco partibus hujus operis ...
... seems to include Taste ( for which , in the sense which we now give to that word , the ancients appear to have had no distinct name ) under which he calls judicium . “ Locus de judicio , meá " quidem opinione adco partibus hujus operis ...
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... seem to praise , true Criticism may with reason condemn ; and it will in progress of time gain the ascendant : for the . judgment of true Criticism , and the voice of the public when once become unprejudiced and dispassionate , will ...
... seem to praise , true Criticism may with reason condemn ; and it will in progress of time gain the ascendant : for the . judgment of true Criticism , and the voice of the public when once become unprejudiced and dispassionate , will ...
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... seems to have covered with an inpenetrable veil . It is some comfort , however , that although the efficient cause be obscure , the final cause of those sensations lies in many cases more open and in entering on this subject , we cannot ...
... seems to have covered with an inpenetrable veil . It is some comfort , however , that although the efficient cause be obscure , the final cause of those sensations lies in many cases more open and in entering on this subject , we cannot ...
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الصفحة 220 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
الصفحة 238 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
الصفحة 44 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
الصفحة 238 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming : it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us...
الصفحة 44 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
الصفحة 238 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house : but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the 2S2 THE MAN-GOD.
الصفحة 333 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion: but for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure...
الصفحة 215 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
الصفحة 153 - Men look with an evil eye upon the good that is in others, and think that their reputation obscures them, and their commendable qualities stand in their light ; and therefore they do what they can to cast a cloud over them, that the bright shining of their virtues may not obscure them.n This is altogether careless writing.
الصفحة 173 - Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty.