In the morning of our days, when the senses are unworn and tender, when the whole man is awake in every part, and the gloss of novelty fresh upon all the objects that surround us, how lively at that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate... Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature - Page 195by Thomas Green - 1810 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...judgments \ve form of things? I defpair of ever receiving the fame degree of pleafure from the moft excellent performances of genius which I felt at that age, from pieces which my prefent judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Every tri^ vial caufe of pleafure is apt to... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...judgments we form of things ? I defpair of ever receiving the fame degree of pleafure from the moft excellent performances of genius which I felt at that age, from pieces which my prefent judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Every trivial caufe of pleafure is apt to affect... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...judgments we form of things? I defpair of ever receiving the fame degree of pleafure from the moft excellent performances of genius which I felt at that age, from pieces which my prefent judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Every trivial caufe of pleafure is apt to affect... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...judgments we form of things ? I defpair of ever receiving the fame degree of pleafure from the moft excellent performances of genius which I felt at that age, from pieces ' which my prefent judgment regards as triffing and contemptible. Every trivial caufe of pleafure is apt to aftect... | |
| Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...judgments we form of things ? I defpair of ever receiving the fame degree of pleafure from the mofb excellent performances of genius which I felt at that age, from pieces which my prefent judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Every trivial caufe of pleafure is apt to affect... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 366 pages
...judgments we form of things ? I defpair of ever receiving the fame degree of pleafure from the moft excellent performances of genius, which I felt at that age from pieces which my prefent judgment regards as triffing and contemptible. Every trivial caufe of pleafure is apt to affect... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...judgments we form of things? I defpair of ever receiving the fame degree of pleafure from the moft excellent performances of genius, which I felt at that age from pieces which my prefent judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Every trivial caufe of pleafure is apt to affect... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate the judgments we form of things? I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from,...present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Every trivial cause of pleasure is apt to affect the man of too sanguine a complexion : his appetite... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...things ! I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most excellent performance* of genius, which I felt at that age from pieces which...present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Every trivial cause of pleasure is apt to affect the man of too sanguine a complexion: his appetite... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...things? I despair of ever receiving the " same degree of pleasure from the most excellent perfor" mances of genius, which I felt, at that age, from pieces...which my present judgment regards as trifling and con" temptible. Every trivial cause of pleasure is apt to affect " the man of too sanguine a complexion;... | |
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