Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... suggest unlawful means ; because it can never exceed the bounds of justice . And yet the crime here attempted , murder under trust reposed , is what even a miscreant will scarce attempt against his bitterest enemy . What is faid may be ...
... suggest unlawful means ; because it can never exceed the bounds of justice . And yet the crime here attempted , murder under trust reposed , is what even a miscreant will scarce attempt against his bitterest enemy . What is faid may be ...
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... suggested . The efficient cause of the power of custom over man , a fundamental point in the present chapter , has unhappily evaded my keenest search ; and now I am reduced to hold it an original branch of the human conftitution ...
... suggested . The efficient cause of the power of custom over man , a fundamental point in the present chapter , has unhappily evaded my keenest search ; and now I am reduced to hold it an original branch of the human conftitution ...
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... suggests , is confirmed by experience . Pride feems to be an exception ; its external figns being disagreeable , though it be commonly reckoned a pleasant paffion . But pride is not an exception ; for in reality it is a mix- ed paffion ...
... suggests , is confirmed by experience . Pride feems to be an exception ; its external figns being disagreeable , though it be commonly reckoned a pleasant paffion . But pride is not an exception ; for in reality it is a mix- ed paffion ...
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... suggested by a paffion or emotion , is termed a fentiment * . The knowledge of the sentiments peculiar to each passion confidered abstract- ly , will not alone enable an artist to make a just representation of nature . He ought , over ...
... suggested by a paffion or emotion , is termed a fentiment * . The knowledge of the sentiments peculiar to each passion confidered abstract- ly , will not alone enable an artist to make a just representation of nature . He ought , over ...
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... suggests not to the man who feels it any sentiment to its own prejudice . Reflections like the foregoing , occur not to him readily till the passion have fpent its vigor . 77 A person sometimes is agitated at once by different paffions ...
... suggests not to the man who feels it any sentiment to its own prejudice . Reflections like the foregoing , occur not to him readily till the passion have fpent its vigor . 77 A person sometimes is agitated at once by different paffions ...
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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...