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... elevation : being sweet and moder- ately 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 moder- ately 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 be delightful ...
... 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 be delightful ...
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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 accordingly 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 accordingly have in all ages been governed by a taste for simplicity . How comes it then that we find ...
Page 112
... elevation . - Why profuse decoration prevails in works of art . 188. Why an object appears beautiful , on account of its regularity , uniformity , & c What beneficial purposes are answered by the relish we naturally have for these ...
... elevation . - Why profuse decoration prevails in works of art . 188. Why an object appears beautiful , on account of its regularity , uniformity , & c What beneficial purposes are answered by the relish we naturally have for these ...
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... elevation concur to make a com- plicated impression : the Alps and the Peake of Teneriffe are proper examples ; with the following difference , that in the former greatness seems to prevail , elevation in the latter . 210. The emotions ...
... elevation concur to make a com- plicated impression : the Alps and the Peake of Teneriffe are proper examples ; with the following difference , that in the former greatness seems to prevail , elevation in the latter . 210. The emotions ...
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