Essays on Various SubjectsJ. Johnson, 1809 - 158 páginas |
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... productions , bears the strongest marks of a vigorous and active mind , and evinces a maturity of capacity and judgment , that might almost enable him to rank with those literary phænomena , whose precocity of intellect and attainments ...
... productions , bears the strongest marks of a vigorous and active mind , and evinces a maturity of capacity and judgment , that might almost enable him to rank with those literary phænomena , whose precocity of intellect and attainments ...
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... production , the result of so much patient industry and laborious investi- gation , was sold to Mr. Johnson for the small sum of 40 : and even this was after- ward voluntarily remitted by Mr. Walker , as the sale had not indemnified him ...
... production , the result of so much patient industry and laborious investi- gation , was sold to Mr. Johnson for the small sum of 40 : and even this was after- ward voluntarily remitted by Mr. Walker , as the sale had not indemnified him ...
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... productions , and that the mean cha- racter of his productions of any species must approach the nearest to the perfect model contemplated in the Creator's mind . Our sense of beauty , our delight therein , can find its object only in ...
... productions , and that the mean cha- racter of his productions of any species must approach the nearest to the perfect model contemplated in the Creator's mind . Our sense of beauty , our delight therein , can find its object only in ...
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... been equalled by the similar productions of any other nation , if to the statuaries of no other nation the same means and advantages have been extended . may This standard of beauty thus acquired , and the This .12 ON THE BEAUTIFUL IN.
... been equalled by the similar productions of any other nation , if to the statuaries of no other nation the same means and advantages have been extended . may This standard of beauty thus acquired , and the This .12 ON THE BEAUTIFUL IN.
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... productions of every wise artist , be subor- dinate to utility ; and therefore in those works , which we refer to the Great Artist , we expect that beauty shall be reconciled with utility . Nor are we disappointed ; all that is ...
... productions of every wise artist , be subor- dinate to utility ; and therefore in those works , which we refer to the Great Artist , we expect that beauty shall be reconciled with utility . Nor are we disappointed ; all that is ...
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