A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulJ. Dodsley, 1767 - 342 страница |
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... perfect as it was , furnished me with a new motive to spare no reasonable pains for its improvement . Though " I have not found sufficient reason , or what appeared to me suf- ficient , for making any material change in my theory , I ...
... perfect as it was , furnished me with a new motive to spare no reasonable pains for its improvement . Though " I have not found sufficient reason , or what appeared to me suf- ficient , for making any material change in my theory , I ...
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... comparisons we make , the more general and the more certain our knowledge is like to prove , as built upon a more extensive and perfect induction . If an enquiry thus carefully conducted , should fail at A 3 If The PREFACE .
... comparisons we make , the more general and the more certain our knowledge is like to prove , as built upon a more extensive and perfect induction . If an enquiry thus carefully conducted , should fail at A 3 If The PREFACE .
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... perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the world . When two distinct objects are unlike to each other , it is only what we expect ; things are in their common way ; and therefore they make no impression on the ...
... perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the world . When two distinct objects are unlike to each other , it is only what we expect ; things are in their common way ; and therefore they make no impression on the ...
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... perfect ; for as every thing new , extraordinary , grand , or passionate , is well calculated to affect such a person , and that the faults do not affect affect him , his pleasure is more pure and unmixed 34 INTRODUCTION .
... perfect ; for as every thing new , extraordinary , grand , or passionate , is well calculated to affect such a person , and that the faults do not affect affect him , his pleasure is more pure and unmixed 34 INTRODUCTION .
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... perfect satisfaction , at the price of ending it in the torments , which justice inflicted in a few hours on the late unfortunate regicide in France . But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure , so death is in general a ...
... perfect satisfaction , at the price of ending it in the torments , which justice inflicted in a few hours on the late unfortunate regicide in France . But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure , so death is in general a ...
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Страница 1 - ON a superficial view, we may seem to differ very widely from each other in our reasonings, and no less in our pleasures : but notwithstanding this difference, which I think to be rather apparent than real, it is probable that the standard both of reason and taste is the same in all human creatures.
Страница 335 - Certain it is, that the influence of most things on our passions is not so much from the things themselves, as from our opinions concerning them ; and these again depend very much on the opinions of other men, conveyable for the most part by words only.
Страница 80 - It is by imitation far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
Страница 74 - But the case is widely different with the greater part of mankind; there is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue as that of some uncommon and grievous calamity; so that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether they are turned back to it in history, it always touches with delight. This is not an unmixed delight, but blended with no small uneasiness.
Страница 91 - ... as for those called critics, they have generally sought the rule of the arts in the wrong place ; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets, principally, have been confined in so narrow a circle : they have been rather imitators of one another than of nature...
Страница 334 - ... we find by experience, that eloquence and poetry are as capable, nay indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases.
Страница 36 - ... upon all the objects that surround us, how lively at that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate the judgments we form of things ? I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most excellent performances of genius, which I felt at that age, from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
Страница 250 - Antiquite, gives us a curious story of the celebrated physiognomist Campanella. This man, it seems, had not only made very accurate observations on human faces, but was very expert in mimicking such as were any way remarkable. When he had a mind to penetrate into the inclinations of those he had to deal with...
Страница 336 - Besides many ideas have never been at all presented to the senses of any men but by words, as God, angels, devils, heaven, and hell, all of which have however a great influence over the passions.
Страница 5 - A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined ; but let the virtue of a definition be what it will, in the order of things, it seems rather to follow than to precede our inquiry, of which it ought to be considered as the result.