Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of SensationsJoseph Booker, 1809 - 191 Seiten |
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... light , and to mark vice with every shade of deformity . For , notwithstanding my present embar- rassments , and the partiality I may be allowed to have for my Intellec- tual Sentiments , I would rather com- mit it to the flames , than ...
... light , and to mark vice with every shade of deformity . For , notwithstanding my present embar- rassments , and the partiality I may be allowed to have for my Intellec- tual Sentiments , I would rather com- mit it to the flames , than ...
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... light the characteristics of one , by comparing them with those of another . But if contrast and likeness have the same advantage , I ask whether they may be used impartially ? No , certainly . Contrast is very successfully made use of ...
... light the characteristics of one , by comparing them with those of another . But if contrast and likeness have the same advantage , I ask whether they may be used impartially ? No , certainly . Contrast is very successfully made use of ...
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... light in all its circumstances . This celebrious rival of Homer observed , that a dramatic poem would afford to the mind still greater charms , when one principal action united all the scenes , and held them in a manner . joined ...
... light in all its circumstances . This celebrious rival of Homer observed , that a dramatic poem would afford to the mind still greater charms , when one principal action united all the scenes , and held them in a manner . joined ...
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... light . We cannot observe Nature , without perceiving that a valuable simplicity pre- vails through all her laws . We may then form an idea of the impression which is made upon the brain , by that made upon the organs of the senses ...
... light . We cannot observe Nature , without perceiving that a valuable simplicity pre- vails through all her laws . We may then form an idea of the impression which is made upon the brain , by that made upon the organs of the senses ...
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... light upon this mystery . Sounds reach us because there are cer- tain fibres in sonorous bodies , together with parcels of air , the fibres of the ear , and lastly , those of the brain , which form a constant chain of chords which ...
... light upon this mystery . Sounds reach us because there are cer- tain fibres in sonorous bodies , together with parcels of air , the fibres of the ear , and lastly , those of the brain , which form a constant chain of chords which ...
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abilities able agreeable sensations appears Author of Nature beauty become benevolence bloom body brain breast cause charms cheerful choly chords colour consonant Creator delight displeasing disposition Divine DUCHESS OF YORK endeavour enjoy envy Epicurus esteem eternal ev'ry exercise faculties fancy fection feel felicity fibres flatter friendship genius give happiness hatred heart Heav'n human idea idea of perfection imagination immolate impres impression laws of sensation likewise lively mankind manner ment mind misfor motions munificent Nature's neighbour neral ness objects opulence organs ourselves passions peculiar perfection plea pleasing sensation pleasure possess power of love praise preservation pression principal procure proportion racters reason requisite rill Royal Highness Royal Highness's sations satisfaction scene sciences secret self-love senses sensible sentiments shew shine sion soul springs sublimity superior tain tastes thing thought tion torpid true variety virtue virtuous person Whence comes wisdom
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Seite 124 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Seite 155 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Seite 76 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Seite 134 - Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.
Seite 120 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Seite 123 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Seite 95 - Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain : E'en mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others...
Seite 99 - Painful preeminence ! yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring then these blessings to a strict account ; Make fair deductions ; see to what they 'mount...
Seite 31 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.