The EmotionsC. Scribner's Sons, 1890 - 255 Seiten |
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æsthetic feeling affection animals appetence arises Aristotle association of ideas beauty become bodily body brain burst called cause centre character cherish circumstances colors comes contemplate countenance Darwin deep delight disappointment elements emotion energy evil excitement expression eyebrows fear felt flow forms Francis Hutcheson give Grant Allen gratified grief habitual harmony heart hope hopes and fears human humor impulse individual influence intellectual kind lachrymal gland Lake Lucerne Laura Bridgman laws lead lips lively look mankind ment mental mind moral mother motives mountains mouth moved muscles nature nerves nervous nostrils notice objects organic pain passion pathy persons Peter the Hermit phantasm Plato pleasant pleasure poetry produced raised rise round scenes SECTION seen sensation sense sentiment shy song sion sorrow soul spirit springs of action stream strong sublime swayed taste tears temper things thought tion tree whole
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Seite 184 - But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Seite 179 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Seite 125 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Seite 141 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Seite 171 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Seite 144 - The hairs also on the skin stand erect, and the superficial muscles shiver. In connection with the disturbed action of the heart, the breathing is hurried, the salivary glands act imperfectly, the mouth becomes dry, and is often opened and shut.
Seite 143 - The frightened man at first stands like a statue motionless and breathless, or crouches down as if instinctively to escape observation. The heart beats quickly and violently, so that it palpitates or knocks against the ribs ; but it is very doubtful...
Seite 83 - When I am assailed with heavy tribulations I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill ; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour ; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.
Seite 187 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose : often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how.
Seite 186 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...