Essays on Various Subjects, 2Johnson, 1809 |
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... taste in this walk of literature is com- monly appealed to as decisive , concur with the impressions that we are in the habit of receiving : receiving our prepossession is strengthened by such respectable testimony , OF THE ANCIENT EPIC ...
... taste in this walk of literature is com- monly appealed to as decisive , concur with the impressions that we are in the habit of receiving : receiving our prepossession is strengthened by such respectable testimony , OF THE ANCIENT EPIC ...
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... taste and judgment can relish and can approve , there are innumerable passages , which the same taste and judgment cannot enter into , which it may candidly pardon and excuse , but cannot sanction as absolutely proper , beautiful , and ...
... taste and judgment can relish and can approve , there are innumerable passages , which the same taste and judgment cannot enter into , which it may candidly pardon and excuse , but cannot sanction as absolutely proper , beautiful , and ...
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... taste would be equally disgusted with in the representations of the poets of Greece and Rome . The gods , as gods of antiquity , might fall into contempt and oblivion , but the celestial machinery of the ancients must be preserved at ...
... taste would be equally disgusted with in the representations of the poets of Greece and Rome . The gods , as gods of antiquity , might fall into contempt and oblivion , but the celestial machinery of the ancients must be preserved at ...
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... taste must be taught to worship what moral taste loathed . It will be proper therefore , first , to exa- mine on what foundations this allegorical in- terpretation of the pagan deities rests ; whe- ther it can be maintained ; whether ...
... taste must be taught to worship what moral taste loathed . It will be proper therefore , first , to exa- mine on what foundations this allegorical in- terpretation of the pagan deities rests ; whe- ther it can be maintained ; whether ...
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... taste and judgment ought to bow , to this truth and standard I appeal , and , in despite of the dear- est prejudices , hope to make it appear , that , inasmuch as the ancient epic poem depends upon its celestial machinery , this ...
... taste and judgment ought to bow , to this truth and standard I appeal , and , in despite of the dear- est prejudices , hope to make it appear , that , inasmuch as the ancient epic poem depends upon its celestial machinery , this ...
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