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... commence . An uninformed spectator may like an ordinary drawing better than the ablest connoisseur ; but for that very reason he cannot like the To highest specimens of art so well . The refinements not 18 TABLE - TALK.
... commence . An uninformed spectator may like an ordinary drawing better than the ablest connoisseur ; but for that very reason he cannot like the To highest specimens of art so well . The refinements not 18 TABLE - TALK.
Pagina 30
... reason , and cannot be stopped nor kept within bounds . Some idea , some fancy , takes possession of the brain ; and however ridiculous , however distressing , however ruinous , haunts us by a sort of fascination through life . Not only ...
... reason , and cannot be stopped nor kept within bounds . Some idea , some fancy , takes possession of the brain ; and however ridiculous , however distressing , however ruinous , haunts us by a sort of fascination through life . Not only ...
Pagina 31
... reason ; that is , from the impression of a number of things on the mind , which impression is true and well - founded , though you may not be able to analyse or account for it in the several particulars . In a gesture you use , in a ...
... reason ; that is , from the impression of a number of things on the mind , which impression is true and well - founded , though you may not be able to analyse or account for it in the several particulars . In a gesture you use , in a ...
Pagina 32
... reason to be the end or means of Art , independent of the known first effect produced by objects on the imagination , must be false and delusive . For though it may appear bold to say it , the imagination is here the residence of truth ...
... reason to be the end or means of Art , independent of the known first effect produced by objects on the imagination , must be false and delusive . For though it may appear bold to say it , the imagination is here the residence of truth ...
Pagina 33
... reason , which , however powerfully exerted on any particular occasion , will probably comprehend but a partial view of the subject ; and our conduct in life , as well as in the arts , is or ought to be generally governed by this ...
... reason , which , however powerfully exerted on any particular occasion , will probably comprehend but a partial view of the subject ; and our conduct in life , as well as in the arts , is or ought to be generally governed by this ...
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Pagina 99 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed (') my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Pagina 41 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pagina 125 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Pagina 181 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Pagina 31 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Pagina 177 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell: Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor...
Pagina 194 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone...
Pagina 367 - Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well...
Pagina 297 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Pagina 393 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i