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... elevation : being sweet and moderately exhilarating , they are in their tone equally distant from the turbulence of passion , and the languor of indolence : and by that tone are perfectly well qualified , not only to revive the spirits ...
... elevation : being sweet and moderately exhilarating , they are in their tone equally distant from the turbulence of passion , and the languor of indolence : and by that tone are perfectly well qualified , not only to revive the spirits ...
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... elevation : and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending gradually with a river , prevails over that of mounting upward . But where the course of nature is joined with elevation , the effect must delightful ; and ...
... elevation : and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending gradually with a river , prevails over that of mounting upward . But where the course of nature is joined with elevation , the effect must delightful ; and ...
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... elevation ; which is , that the mind attached to beauties of a high rank , cannot descend to inferior beauties . The best artists accord- ingly have in all ages been governed by a taste for simplicity . How comes it then that we find ...
... elevation ; which is , that the mind attached to beauties of a high rank , cannot descend to inferior beauties . The best artists accord- ingly have in all ages been governed by a taste for simplicity . How comes it then that we find ...
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... elevation concur to make a com- plicated impression : the Alps and the Peak of Teneriffe are proper examples ; with the following difference , that in the former greatness seems to prevail , elevation in the latter . * Longinus observes ...
... elevation concur to make a com- plicated impression : the Alps and the Peak of Teneriffe are proper examples ; with the following difference , that in the former greatness seems to prevail , elevation in the latter . * Longinus observes ...
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... elevation could not be so ; were littleness and lowness of place disagreeable , they would occasion perpetual uneasiness . The difference between great and little with respect to agreeable- ness , is remarkably felt in a series , when ...
... elevation could not be so ; were littleness and lowness of place disagreeable , they would occasion perpetual uneasiness . The difference between great and little with respect to agreeable- ness , is remarkably felt in a series , when ...
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