Letters Concerning Taste: To which are Added, Essays on Similar and Other Subjects ...R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 - 220 páginas |
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... CORIN- THIAN Order only in that City . A Reason why that Order was fo much admired there . A Passage in LoN- GINUS'S Treatife on the Sublime b2 cited , Letter cited , defcribing the Progress of Wealth to Luxury CONTENTS .
... CORIN- THIAN Order only in that City . A Reason why that Order was fo much admired there . A Passage in LoN- GINUS'S Treatife on the Sublime b2 cited , Letter cited , defcribing the Progress of Wealth to Luxury CONTENTS .
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... Reason will afterwards difcover the latent Cause in the fame manner as before . Your favourite Architecture will not fail to afford lefs re- markable Inftances , that Truth , Beauty , and Utility are infeparable . You very well know ...
... Reason will afterwards difcover the latent Cause in the fame manner as before . Your favourite Architecture will not fail to afford lefs re- markable Inftances , that Truth , Beauty , and Utility are infeparable . You very well know ...
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... Reasons known only to himself , has placed above our limited Capacities , demand bow he has fo formed us , I should refer them , with proper Con- tempt , to their more aged Brethren , who may justly in Derifion be stiled the Philo ...
... Reasons known only to himself , has placed above our limited Capacities , demand bow he has fo formed us , I should refer them , with proper Con- tempt , to their more aged Brethren , who may justly in Derifion be stiled the Philo ...
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... Reason the noble Author of the CHARACTERISTICS warns us , out of the Stoic School , against the Delufions of a falfe Fancy , as the most important Con- cern of our Being * . If you would fee this Doctrine illuftrated and adorned with ...
... Reason the noble Author of the CHARACTERISTICS warns us , out of the Stoic School , against the Delufions of a falfe Fancy , as the most important Con- cern of our Being * . If you would fee this Doctrine illuftrated and adorned with ...
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... LOVE OF GOLD TO DISTURB THE SACRED REMAINS OF THY PROGENITORS . HAD NOT THY REASON BEEN DELUDED BY A FALSE FANCY SHE WOULD HAVE TOLD THEE THAT THE GRAVE F GRAVE CONTAINS NOTHING BUT DUST AND ASHES . Adieu , LETTER 65 X.
... LOVE OF GOLD TO DISTURB THE SACRED REMAINS OF THY PROGENITORS . HAD NOT THY REASON BEEN DELUDED BY A FALSE FANCY SHE WOULD HAVE TOLD THEE THAT THE GRAVE F GRAVE CONTAINS NOTHING BUT DUST AND ASHES . Adieu , LETTER 65 X.
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Admiration againſt AGATHOCLES ancient arifes ARISTUS attend Beauty behold bleffed Cauſes Charms Chimæras cœleftial Compofitions Converfation CORINTHIAN Order dare fay defcend defcribed Defcription Defires delightful DEMOCRITUS divine elegant EUDOXUS EUPHEMIUS Eyes faid Faithful Shepherdess fame Fancy feemed feve fhall fhewed fhould fince firft firſt fome foon ftill fuch fuperior fure Genius Grace greateſt Happineſs happy Heart himſelf Hiſtory human Iliad Imagination Imitation Inftruction ingenious itſelf JOVIANUS PONTANUS juft laſt lefs LETTER Love Mankind manner Mind moft moral moſt muſt myſelf Nature neceffary Number Nymph Obfervation Objects Occafion OVID Paffages paffed Paffions Philofophy pleafing Pleaſure Poet Poetry Pow'r Power Precepts prefent raiſe Reaſon refpective reft Repreſentation reſt Roscius Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe Soul Species ſpoke ſtill STROZZA Tafte Taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tion Tranflation Truth Underſtanding uſed utmoſt Virtue whilft whofe whoſe Wiſdom Wiſhes Youth
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Página 128 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Página 193 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Página 37 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 24 - Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove : the pensive sage, Heedless of sleep, or midnight's harmful...
Página 126 - And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Página 38 - Attentive turn ; from dim oblivion call Her fleet, ideal band ; and bid them, go ! Break through Time's barrier, and o'ertake the hour That saw the heavens created : then declare If aught were found in those external scenes To move thy wonder now.
Página 51 - When first with fresh-born vigour he inhales The balmy breeze, and feels the blessed sun Warm at his bosom, from the springs of life Chasing oppressive damps and languid pain!
Página 14 - Were destin'd ; some within a finer mould She wrought, and temper'd with a purer flame. To these the Sire omnipotent unfolds The world's harmonious volume, there to read The transcript of himself.
Página 24 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...
Página 17 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that the Omnipotent might send him forth, In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice...