Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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... depends upon the combi- nation and arrangement of colours ; upon the regular disposition of the petals ; upon some unknown circumstance even independent of the principle of association , something as uncon- nected with ideas of social ...
... depends upon the combi- nation and arrangement of colours ; upon the regular disposition of the petals ; upon some unknown circumstance even independent of the principle of association , something as uncon- nected with ideas of social ...
Side 4
... depends the necessary succession of ideas in a train , of which any one may satisfy himself by attending to the operations of his own mind : ideas are intro- duced by an agreement in some of the parts of which complex ideas are composed ...
... depends the necessary succession of ideas in a train , of which any one may satisfy himself by attending to the operations of his own mind : ideas are intro- duced by an agreement in some of the parts of which complex ideas are composed ...
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... depends upon their being an imitation or description of whatever is beautiful or strik- ing in nature . To apply all this to the immediate object of our correspondence . Nothing is more obvious than that some books are more pleasing ...
... depends upon their being an imitation or description of whatever is beautiful or strik- ing in nature . To apply all this to the immediate object of our correspondence . Nothing is more obvious than that some books are more pleasing ...
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... depend on the splendour and magnificence of the ima- gery by which the subject is illustrated . In the first case , where the grandeur of the- subject is the principal source of the sublime , a brevity of language , combined , if ...
... depend on the splendour and magnificence of the ima- gery by which the subject is illustrated . In the first case , where the grandeur of the- subject is the principal source of the sublime , a brevity of language , combined , if ...
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... depends upon the taste and skill of the writer to employ that mode of exciting pathetic emotions which is best adapted to his subject . The circumstantial method , though the most general , and indeed the most powerful , is very apt ...
... depends upon the taste and skill of the writer to employ that mode of exciting pathetic emotions which is best adapted to his subject . The circumstantial method , though the most general , and indeed the most powerful , is very apt ...
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