Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... they think of themselves , it also produceth , by means of contrast , an emotion of humility . To discover the effects of an unfuitable action , We we must invert each of these circumstances . The painful Ch . X. 13 AND PROPRIETY .
... they think of themselves , it also produceth , by means of contrast , an emotion of humility . To discover the effects of an unfuitable action , We we must invert each of these circumstances . The painful Ch . X. 13 AND PROPRIETY .
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... discover , that they are not applicable to any thing inanimate . The most magni- ficent palace ever built , may be lofty , may be grand , but it has no relation to dignity . The most diminutive shrub may be little , but it is not mean ...
... discover , that they are not applicable to any thing inanimate . The most magni- ficent palace ever built , may be lofty , may be grand , but it has no relation to dignity . The most diminutive shrub may be little , but it is not mean ...
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... discovering whether a subject be really grave , or be made so artificially by custom and fashion . This dispute has pro- duced a celebrated question , Whether ridi- cule be or be not a test of truth ? I give this question a place here ...
... discovering whether a subject be really grave , or be made so artificially by custom and fashion . This dispute has pro- duced a celebrated question , Whether ridi- cule be or be not a test of truth ? I give this question a place here ...
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... discover no difference betwixt a generic and specific habit : the pain is the fame in both . But these habits differ widely with refpect to the positive pleasure . I have had Moccafion to observe , that the pleasure of a specific habit ...
... discover no difference betwixt a generic and specific habit : the pain is the fame in both . But these habits differ widely with refpect to the positive pleasure . I have had Moccafion to observe , that the pleasure of a specific habit ...
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Lord Henry Home Kames. neric habit . So far as I can discover , this pleasure fuffers little or no decay after it comes to its height . The variety of gratifi- cation preserves it entire . However it may be with other generic habits ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. neric habit . So far as I can discover , this pleasure fuffers little or no decay after it comes to its height . The variety of gratifi- cation preserves it entire . However it may be with other generic habits ...
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Page 101 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 226 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 218 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 221 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 211 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth,— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin,— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion...
Page 72 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Page 211 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 426 - ... to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 217 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 67 - Kiss, Not Tyrants fierce that unrepenting die, Not Cynthia when her Manteau's pinn'd awry, E'er felt such Rage, Resentment, and Despair, As Thou, sad Virgin ! for thy ravish'd Hair. For, that sad moment, when the Sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from BELINDA flew, Umbriel...