Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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... passions is derived ; but by observing carefully certain effects , we can generally foretel when these effects will be ... passion of love , and why others should be assi- milated to joy and triumph ; yet so it is , and there is scarcely ...
... passions is derived ; but by observing carefully certain effects , we can generally foretel when these effects will be ... passion of love , and why others should be assi- milated to joy and triumph ; yet so it is , and there is scarcely ...
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... passions are naturally engaged . But why one composition should be even more pleasing in its manner than another , why the style and language of an author should parti- cularly interest us , is a more curious inquiry , and more remote ...
... passions are naturally engaged . But why one composition should be even more pleasing in its manner than another , why the style and language of an author should parti- cularly interest us , is a more curious inquiry , and more remote ...
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... passions . It is of but little consequence whether the subject is fiction or reality . Robinson Crusoe , George Barnwell , and even Don Quixote , not to speak of the incomparable novel of Cecilia , interest , I will venture to say ...
... passions . It is of but little consequence whether the subject is fiction or reality . Robinson Crusoe , George Barnwell , and even Don Quixote , not to speak of the incomparable novel of Cecilia , interest , I will venture to say ...
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... passions , for , as I observed , it is by exciting correspondent emotions in their minds that the imagery employed by any writer affects and interests his readers . The same phi- losophers have endeavoured to explain why the excitement ...
... passions , for , as I observed , it is by exciting correspondent emotions in their minds that the imagery employed by any writer affects and interests his readers . The same phi- losophers have endeavoured to explain why the excitement ...
Side 22
... passion of admiration . It may also be increased by the same cause from which I have account- ed for the pleasurable sensations excited by tragedy . Almost every thing wonderful is con- nected with something of the terrific , and we ...
... passion of admiration . It may also be increased by the same cause from which I have account- ed for the pleasurable sensations excited by tragedy . Almost every thing wonderful is con- nected with something of the terrific , and we ...
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