A philosophical enquiry [&c.].1827 |
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... sweet to one palate is sweet to another ; that what is dark and bitter to this man is likewise dark and bitter to that and we conclude in the same manner of great and little , hard and soft , hot and cold , rough and smooth , and indeed ...
... sweet to one palate is sweet to another ; that what is dark and bitter to this man is likewise dark and bitter to that and we conclude in the same manner of great and little , hard and soft , hot and cold , rough and smooth , and indeed ...
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... sweet disposition , a sweet person , a sweet condition , and the like . It is confessed , that cus- tom and some other causes , have made many de- viations from the natural pleasures or pains which belong to these several Tastes ; but ...
... sweet disposition , a sweet person , a sweet condition , and the like . It is confessed , that cus- tom and some other causes , have made many de- viations from the natural pleasures or pains which belong to these several Tastes ; but ...
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... sweet and pleasant flavour like tobacco , opium , or garlic , although you spoke to those who were in the constant use of these drugs , and had great plea- sure in them . There is in all men a 10 INTRODUCTION . Of Beauty.
... sweet and pleasant flavour like tobacco , opium , or garlic , although you spoke to those who were in the constant use of these drugs , and had great plea- sure in them . There is in all men a 10 INTRODUCTION . Of Beauty.
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... sweet or beautiful sounds agree with our descriptions of beauty in other senses , the experience of every one must decide . Milton has described this species of music in one of his juvenile poems . * I 118 ON THE SUBLIME.
... sweet or beautiful sounds agree with our descriptions of beauty in other senses , the experience of every one must decide . Milton has described this species of music in one of his juvenile poems . * I 118 ON THE SUBLIME.
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... passion excited by beauty is in fact nearer to a species of melancholy , than to * L'Allegro . I ne'er am merry when I hear sweet music . - Shakspeare , jollity and mirth . I do not here mean to AND BEAUTIFUL . 119 .
... passion excited by beauty is in fact nearer to a species of melancholy , than to * L'Allegro . I ne'er am merry when I hear sweet music . - Shakspeare , jollity and mirth . I do not here mean to AND BEAUTIFUL . 119 .
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Página 54 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 119 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 56 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 58 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Página 52 - And to things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. A level plain of a vast extent on land, is certainly no mean idea...
Página 65 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Página 56 - Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist? in images of a tower, an archangel, the sun rising through mists, or in an eclipse, the ruin of monarchs, and the revolutions of kingdoms. The mind is hurried out of itself by a crowd of great and confused images, which affect because they are crowded and confused.
Página 109 - There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects, and terrible ; the latter on small ones, and pleasing ; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us; in one case we are forced, in the other we are nattered, into compliance.
Página 34 - When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible ; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience.
Página 33 - WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrour, is a source of the sublime ; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.