Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of SensationsJoseph Booker, 1809 - 191 pàgines |
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Pàgina x
... sounds ; in the figure , proportion , symmetry , variation , and novelty of objects ; in language and style ; in the sciences , in the passions , in the movements of the soul ; in short , in every thing conducive to true and ra- tional ...
... sounds ; in the figure , proportion , symmetry , variation , and novelty of objects ; in language and style ; in the sciences , in the passions , in the movements of the soul ; in short , in every thing conducive to true and ra- tional ...
Pàgina 64
... of a variety of chords , each of which has a peculiar spring . A sound is pleasing as it affects a greater number of those fibres with motions , which have the nearest likeness , and are most frequently 64 INTELLECTUAL.
... of a variety of chords , each of which has a peculiar spring . A sound is pleasing as it affects a greater number of those fibres with motions , which have the nearest likeness , and are most frequently 64 INTELLECTUAL.
Pàgina 65
... sounds : the most delightful cease to be so and become troublesome , when the action has been too long repeated upon the same fibres . It has been thought that words could not possibly be agreeable , but by the ideas which they conveyed ...
... sounds : the most delightful cease to be so and become troublesome , when the action has been too long repeated upon the same fibres . It has been thought that words could not possibly be agreeable , but by the ideas which they conveyed ...
Pàgina 66
... sounds . that are pronounced with pain . The resemblance of tastes and smells is in the same manner as judiciously adapted to our necessities , as that of co- lours and sounds . The sharp and pierc- ing salts , if conveyed into the body ...
... sounds . that are pronounced with pain . The resemblance of tastes and smells is in the same manner as judiciously adapted to our necessities , as that of co- lours and sounds . The sharp and pierc- ing salts , if conveyed into the body ...
Pàgina 74
... are pleasing , because they make it easy for the mind to understand , and preserve the different parts of an object . Imitation by sounds , colours , gestures , or conversation , has the same superiority as symmetry or 74 INTELLECTUAL.
... are pleasing , because they make it easy for the mind to understand , and preserve the different parts of an object . Imitation by sounds , colours , gestures , or conversation , has the same superiority as symmetry or 74 INTELLECTUAL.
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abilities able agreeable sensations appears Author of Nature beauty become benevolence bloom body brain breast cause charms cheerful choly chords colour consonant Creator delight displeasing disposition Divine DUCHESS OF YORK endeavour enjoy envy Epicurus esteem eternal ev'ry exercise faculties fancy fection feel felicity fibres flatter friendship genius give happiness hatred heart Heav'n human idea idea of perfection imagination immolate impres impression laws of sensation likewise lively mankind manner ment mind misfor motions munificent Nature's neighbour neral ness objects opulence organs ourselves passions peculiar perfection plea pleasing sensation pleasure possess power of love praise preservation pression principal procure proportion racters reason requisite rill Royal Highness Royal Highness's sations satisfaction scene sciences secret self-love senses sensible sentiments shew shine sion soul springs sublimity superior tain tastes thing thought tion torpid true variety virtue virtuous person Whence comes wisdom
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Pàgina 124 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Pàgina 155 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Pàgina 76 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Pàgina 134 - Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.
Pàgina 120 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Pàgina 123 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Pàgina 95 - Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain : E'en mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others...
Pàgina 99 - Painful preeminence ! yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring then these blessings to a strict account ; Make fair deductions ; see to what they 'mount...
Pàgina 31 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.