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... particularly from poetry and oratory , may be resolved , in part at least , into the prin- ciple of association . Many of the human pas- sions are chiefly , if not entirely , derived from it . Thus patriotism , or the strong attachment ...
... particularly from poetry and oratory , may be resolved , in part at least , into the prin- ciple of association . Many of the human pas- sions are chiefly , if not entirely , derived from it . Thus patriotism , or the strong attachment ...
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... particularly paint- ing , sculpture , and poetry , have been termed the " imitative arts , " because their chief ex- cellence depends upon their being an imitation or description of whatever is beautiful or strik- ing in nature . To ...
... particularly paint- ing , sculpture , and poetry , have been termed the " imitative arts , " because their chief ex- cellence depends upon their being an imitation or description of whatever is beautiful or strik- ing in nature . To ...
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... particularly of the different kinds of composition ; but this is not our present object . We are now consi- dering the source of that pleasure which is de- rivable from the mere style , manner , or language of a literary production ...
... particularly of the different kinds of composition ; but this is not our present object . We are now consi- dering the source of that pleasure which is de- rivable from the mere style , manner , or language of a literary production ...
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... , a pet lamb , which they immediately killed and dressed for the enter tainment of the great man's guests . " Here is nothing particularly affecting ; and yet in England such a circumstance is more likely to 14 STYLE .
... , a pet lamb , which they immediately killed and dressed for the enter tainment of the great man's guests . " Here is nothing particularly affecting ; and yet in England such a circumstance is more likely to 14 STYLE .
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... particularly in the couplet : << As being loth to wear it out , " And therefore bore it not about . " On the subject of irony I shall have some- thing more to add , when I treat of the figures of rhetoric . Metaphysicians have ...
... particularly in the couplet : << As being loth to wear it out , " And therefore bore it not about . " On the subject of irony I shall have some- thing more to add , when I treat of the figures of rhetoric . Metaphysicians have ...
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