A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulJ. Dodsley, 1767 - 342 страница |
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... reason , or what appeared to me suf- ficient , for making any material change in my theory , I have found it necessary in many places to explain , illustrate , and enforce it . I have prefixed an introductory discourse concerning Taste ...
... reason , or what appeared to me suf- ficient , for making any material change in my theory , I have found it necessary in many places to explain , illustrate , and enforce it . I have prefixed an introductory discourse concerning Taste ...
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... reason and Taste is the same in all human crea- tures . For if there were not some prin- ciples of judgment as well as of senti- ment common to all mankind , no hold could possibly be taken either on their reason or their passions ...
... reason and Taste is the same in all human crea- tures . For if there were not some prin- ciples of judgment as well as of senti- ment common to all mankind , no hold could possibly be taken either on their reason or their passions ...
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... reason seem to be tacitly settled amongst the most ignorant . The learned have improved on this rude science , and reduced those maxims in- to a system . If Taste has not been so happily cultivated , it was not that the fubject pro ...
... reason seem to be tacitly settled amongst the most ignorant . The learned have improved on this rude science , and reduced those maxims in- to a system . If Taste has not been so happily cultivated , it was not that the fubject pro ...
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... reason . And indeed it is very necessary at the entrance into such an enquiry , as our present , to make this point as clear as possible ; for if Taste has no fixed principles , if the imagination is not af- fected according to some ...
... reason . And indeed it is very necessary at the entrance into such an enquiry , as our present , to make this point as clear as possible ; for if Taste has no fixed principles , if the imagination is not af- fected according to some ...
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... reason undoubtedly ; but for my part , I am con- vinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation , is incomparably the best ; since not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless ...
... reason undoubtedly ; but for my part , I am con- vinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation , is incomparably the best ; since not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless ...
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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.