Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: By Hugh Blair, ... In Three Volumes. ...Messrs. Whitestone, Colles, Burnet, Moncrieffe, Gilbert [and 9 others in Dublin], 1783 |
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... shall these vacant spaces , thofe unemployed intervals , which , more or lefs , occur in the life of every one , be filled up ? How can we contrive to difpofe of them in any way that fhall be more agreeable in itself , or more confonant ...
... shall these vacant spaces , thofe unemployed intervals , which , more or lefs , occur in the life of every one , be filled up ? How can we contrive to difpofe of them in any way that fhall be more agreeable in itself , or more confonant ...
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... shall first explain the Nature of Taste as a power or faculty in the human mind . I fhall next confider how far it is an improveable faculty . I fhall fhew the fources of its improvement , and the characters of tafte in its most perfect ...
... shall first explain the Nature of Taste as a power or faculty in the human mind . I fhall next confider how far it is an improveable faculty . I fhall fhew the fources of its improvement , and the characters of tafte in its most perfect ...
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... shall shew hereafter , affifts Tafte in many of its operations , and ferves to enlarge its power * . TASTE , in the fenfe in which I have ex- plained it , is a faculty common in fome de- gree to all men . Nothing that belongs to human ...
... shall shew hereafter , affifts Tafte in many of its operations , and ferves to enlarge its power * . TASTE , in the fenfe in which I have ex- plained it , is a faculty common in fome de- gree to all men . Nothing that belongs to human ...
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... SHALL begin with confidering the Plea- fure which arifes from Sublimity or Gran- deur , of which I propofe to treat at fome length ; both , as this has a character more precife and diftinctly marked , than any other , of the Pleasures ...
... SHALL begin with confidering the Plea- fure which arifes from Sublimity or Gran- deur , of which I propofe to treat at fome length ; both , as this has a character more precife and diftinctly marked , than any other , of the Pleasures ...
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... Shall mortal man be 66 more just than God * ? " ( Job , iv . 15. ) No ideas , The picture which Lucretius has drawn of the dominion of fuperftition over mankind , reprefenting it as a portentous fpectre showing its head from the clouds ...
... Shall mortal man be 66 more just than God * ? " ( Job , iv . 15. ) No ideas , The picture which Lucretius has drawn of the dominion of fuperftition over mankind , reprefenting it as a portentous fpectre showing its head from the clouds ...
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