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... Scenes , and of PARTICULAR NAMES and CIRCUMSTANCES , 95 LECT . XIII . Of the Tendency of strong Emoti- ons to produce BELIEF , and the transferring of Paffions from one Object to another , 106 LECT . XIV . Of the Influence of the ...
... Scenes , and of PARTICULAR NAMES and CIRCUMSTANCES , 95 LECT . XIII . Of the Tendency of strong Emoti- ons to produce BELIEF , and the transferring of Paffions from one Object to another , 106 LECT . XIV . Of the Influence of the ...
Page 45
... scene which was in itself too uniform and difguft- ing . The subject of the Annals of Tacitus was of fuch a nature as to occafion little or no inconveni- ence from strict chronological order ; the unity of action being no where broken ...
... scene which was in itself too uniform and difguft- ing . The subject of the Annals of Tacitus was of fuch a nature as to occafion little or no inconveni- ence from strict chronological order ; the unity of action being no where broken ...
Page 95
... Scenes , and of PARTICULAR NAMES and CIR- CUMSTANCES . HAVING confidered the nature of taste , and of figurative language in general , I proceed to confider diftinctly the feveral objects that offer themselves to our attention ...
... Scenes , and of PARTICULAR NAMES and CIR- CUMSTANCES . HAVING confidered the nature of taste , and of figurative language in general , I proceed to confider diftinctly the feveral objects that offer themselves to our attention ...
Page 96
... scene more interesting . But that scenes of ideal distress have as much power over the imagination as fcenes of distress that are paft , cannot but be allowed , when we confider , that even reason can plead nothing more in favour of the ...
... scene more interesting . But that scenes of ideal distress have as much power over the imagination as fcenes of distress that are paft , cannot but be allowed , when we confider , that even reason can plead nothing more in favour of the ...
Page 98
... scene . This form of narration is introduced with the most advantage when a pre- ceding lively and animated defcription hath alrea- dy , as it were , transported the reader into the scene of action . In that fituation of mind , he is fo ...
... scene . This form of narration is introduced with the most advantage when a pre- ceding lively and animated defcription hath alrea- dy , as it were , transported the reader into the scene of action . In that fituation of mind , he is fo ...
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