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Page 703
The idea of the relief I may afford to a person in extreme distress is not necessarily accompanied by a correspondent degree of pleasurable sensation to counterbalance the painful feeling his immediate distress occasions in my mind .
The idea of the relief I may afford to a person in extreme distress is not necessarily accompanied by a correspondent degree of pleasurable sensation to counterbalance the painful feeling his immediate distress occasions in my mind .
Page 805
Our author wishes his readers to consider his performance as written for the satisfaction of his own mind , " that is , if we understand him , that he might establish himself in the truth . We do not perceive however the marks of such a ...
Our author wishes his readers to consider his performance as written for the satisfaction of his own mind , " that is , if we understand him , that he might establish himself in the truth . We do not perceive however the marks of such a ...
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third ; in the mind of the bard alone that energy of thought which gives birth to poetry is an active principle ; in all others it is only a passive feeling . And this theory is confirmed by the fact , that though poetical genius is ...
third ; in the mind of the bard alone that energy of thought which gives birth to poetry is an active principle ; in all others it is only a passive feeling . And this theory is confirmed by the fact , that though poetical genius is ...
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