An Abridgment of Elements of Criticism |
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This science furnishes an inviting opportunity to exercise the judgment : we delight to reason upon subjects that are equally pleasant and familiar : we proceed gradually from the simpler to the more involved cases : and in a due course ...
This science furnishes an inviting opportunity to exercise the judgment : we delight to reason upon subjects that are equally pleasant and familiar : we proceed gradually from the simpler to the more involved cases : and in a due course ...
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A comprehensive memory is seldom connected with a good judgment . Wit and judgment are seldom united . Wit joins things by distant and fanciful relations , that occur only to those who make every relation equally welcome .
A comprehensive memory is seldom connected with a good judgment . Wit and judgment are seldom united . Wit joins things by distant and fanciful relations , that occur only to those who make every relation equally welcome .
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I acknowledge , in one class of passions : all vicious passions tending to the hurt of others , are equally painful and disagreeable . We come now to the modifications of these passions as respects the science of criticism .
I acknowledge , in one class of passions : all vicious passions tending to the hurt of others , are equally painful and disagreeable . We come now to the modifications of these passions as respects the science of criticism .
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And , first , it is a general law of nature , that things sudden in their growth are equally sudden in their decay . This is commonly the case of anger . And , with respect to wonder and surprise , which also suddenly decay , another ...
And , first , it is a general law of nature , that things sudden in their growth are equally sudden in their decay . This is commonly the case of anger . And , with respect to wonder and surprise , which also suddenly decay , another ...
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It is natural to suppose , that a perception so various as that of beauty , comprehending sometimes many particulars , sometimes few , should occasion emotions equally various ; and yet all the various emotions of beauty maintain one ...
It is natural to suppose , that a perception so various as that of beauty , comprehending sometimes many particulars , sometimes few , should occasion emotions equally various ; and yet all the various emotions of beauty maintain one ...
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