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Pàgina vii
... equally rare to find one so low in feeling , as not to be capable of instruction . And yet , to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature , is scarce endeavoured in any seminary of learning ; a lament- able defect ...
... equally rare to find one so low in feeling , as not to be capable of instruction . And yet , to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature , is scarce endeavoured in any seminary of learning ; a lament- able defect ...
Pàgina xvii
... equally in every one of the external senses . But there is a difference as to our knowledge of that impression : in touching , tasting , and smelling , we are sensible of the impression ; that , for example , which is made upon the hand ...
... equally in every one of the external senses . But there is a difference as to our knowledge of that impression : in touching , tasting , and smelling , we are sensible of the impression ; that , for example , which is made upon the hand ...
Pàgina xviii
... equally distant from the turbulence of passion , and the pleasure as existing in the nostrils along with the impression made by the rose upon that organ . And the same will be the result of experiments with respect to every feeling of ...
... equally distant from the turbulence of passion , and the pleasure as existing in the nostrils along with the impression made by the rose upon that organ . And the same will be the result of experiments with respect to every feeling of ...
Pàgina xx
... equally in natural sounds , such as the singing of birds , or the murmuring of a brook . Nature here , the artificer of the ob- ject , as well as of the percipient , hath accurately suited them to each other . But of a poem , a cantata ...
... equally in natural sounds , such as the singing of birds , or the murmuring of a brook . Nature here , the artificer of the ob- ject , as well as of the percipient , hath accurately suited them to each other . But of a poem , a cantata ...
Pàgina xxii
... equally pleasant and familiar ; we proceed gradually from the simpler to the more involved cases ; and in a due course of discipline , custom , which improves all our faculties , bestows acuteness on that of reason , sufficient to ...
... equally pleasant and familiar ; we proceed gradually from the simpler to the more involved cases ; and in a due course of discipline , custom , which improves all our faculties , bestows acuteness on that of reason , sufficient to ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 133 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life ; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Pàgina 134 - If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake : 'tis true, this god did shake...
Pàgina 178 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Pàgina 75 - I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Pàgina 188 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Pàgina 181 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pàgina 229 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Pàgina 379 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Pàgina 138 - 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...
Pàgina 75 - Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels...