LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES: IN THREE VOLUMES.W. STRACHAN, 1785 |
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... cafe infer corruption of Taste , or oblige us to feek for fome ftandard in order to determine who are in the right . The Taftes of men may differ very confiderably as to their object , and yet none of them be wrong . man relishes Poetry ...
... cafe infer corruption of Taste , or oblige us to feek for fome ftandard in order to determine who are in the right . The Taftes of men may differ very confiderably as to their object , and yet none of them be wrong . man relishes Poetry ...
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... cafes full fcope for exerting its authority ; for approving or condemning ; by comparing the copy with the original . But there are innumerable cafes in which this rule cannot be at all applied ; and conformity to nature , is an ...
... cafes full fcope for exerting its authority ; for approving or condemning ; by comparing the copy with the original . But there are innumerable cafes in which this rule cannot be at all applied ; and conformity to nature , is an ...
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... cafe , there was plainly no occafion for any fuch strict and abfolute provifion to be made . In order to judge of what is morally good or evil , of what man ought , or ought not in duty to do , it was fit that the means of clear and ...
... cafe , there was plainly no occafion for any fuch strict and abfolute provifion to be made . In order to judge of what is morally good or evil , of what man ought , or ought not in duty to do , it was fit that the means of clear and ...
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... cafe in the infancy of arts ; a period , when Genius frequently exerts itself with great vigour , and executes with much warmth ; while Tafte , which requires experience , and improves by flower degrees , hath not yet at- tained its ...
... cafe in the infancy of arts ; a period , when Genius frequently exerts itself with great vigour , and executes with much warmth ; while Tafte , which requires experience , and improves by flower degrees , hath not yet at- tained its ...
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... cafe is quite different with the Sublime . There , one trifling circumftance , one mean idea , is fufficient to deftroy the whole charm . This is owing to the nature of the emotion aimed at by Sublime description , which ad- mits of no ...
... cafe is quite different with the Sublime . There , one trifling circumftance , one mean idea , is fufficient to deftroy the whole charm . This is owing to the nature of the emotion aimed at by Sublime description , which ad- mits of no ...
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