Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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... perhaps the simplest of all the fine arts its power is derived entirely from the influence of certain sounds upon the organs of perception . It is impossible to say why some sounds or combinations of sound should be termed pathetic ...
... perhaps the simplest of all the fine arts its power is derived entirely from the influence of certain sounds upon the organs of perception . It is impossible to say why some sounds or combinations of sound should be termed pathetic ...
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... perhaps to enter upon a short explanation of it , since those plea- surable sensations , which may properly be called mental , and consequently those which are derived from the reading of poetry , or the beauties of composition in ...
... perhaps to enter upon a short explanation of it , since those plea- surable sensations , which may properly be called mental , and consequently those which are derived from the reading of poetry , or the beauties of composition in ...
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... perhaps softness or hardness also . If music is heard while we behold the instrument , the sound will be associated with the visible ap- pearance , and the former will recal the idea of the latter , even when we do not see the instru ...
... perhaps softness or hardness also . If music is heard while we behold the instrument , the sound will be associated with the visible ap- pearance , and the former will recal the idea of the latter , even when we do not see the instru ...
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Addressed to His Son George Gregory. The association and train of ideas is perhaps still more pleasantly illustrated by a story re- lated by Hobbes . " In a discourse on our pre- sent civil war ( that in the reign of Charles I. ) , what ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. The association and train of ideas is perhaps still more pleasantly illustrated by a story re- lated by Hobbes . " In a discourse on our pre- sent civil war ( that in the reign of Charles I. ) , what ...
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... perhaps a melancholy idea of pleasure . But it is not necessary in a course of letters on rhetoric and criticism , to enter deeply into the philosophy of the human mind , of which , after all , but little is known ; and my wish is ...
... perhaps a melancholy idea of pleasure . But it is not necessary in a course of letters on rhetoric and criticism , to enter deeply into the philosophy of the human mind , of which , after all , but little is known ; and my wish is ...
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