Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1 |
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... - ture it is that certain appearances , sounds or ideas are delightful to the human mind . VOL . I. B The pleasure which is imparted by the fine arts , VOL I LETTER I Introduction -Principle of Association -Plea- sures from the Fine Arts.
... - ture it is that certain appearances , sounds or ideas are delightful to the human mind . VOL . I. B The pleasure which is imparted by the fine arts , VOL I LETTER I Introduction -Principle of Association -Plea- sures from the Fine Arts.
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... ideas will become united . Thus the ideas of the figure and colour of bodies admitted by the eye are always combined , and these may be still as- sociated with another idea admitted by means of the touch B2 PRINCIPLE OF ASSOCIATION . 3.
... ideas will become united . Thus the ideas of the figure and colour of bodies admitted by the eye are always combined , and these may be still as- sociated with another idea admitted by means of the touch B2 PRINCIPLE OF ASSOCIATION . 3.
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... ideas united : of figure , colour , and perhaps softness or hardness also . If music is heard while we behold the ... ideas in a train , of which any one may satisfy himself by attending to the operations of his own mind : ideas ...
... ideas united : of figure , colour , and perhaps softness or hardness also . If music is heard while we behold the ... ideas in a train , of which any one may satisfy himself by attending to the operations of his own mind : ideas ...
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... ideas ; and what may appear a digression is in reality more connected with our subject than at first sight may appear . For much of the pleasure derived from the fine arts , and particularly from poetry and oratory , may be resolved ...
... ideas ; and what may appear a digression is in reality more connected with our subject than at first sight may appear . For much of the pleasure derived from the fine arts , and particularly from poetry and oratory , may be resolved ...
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... idea of pleasure . But it is not necessary in a course of letters on rhetoric and criticism , to enter deeply into the philosophy of the human mind , of which , after all , but little is known ; and my wish is rather to make these ...
... idea of pleasure . But it is not necessary in a course of letters on rhetoric and criticism , to enter deeply into the philosophy of the human mind , of which , after all , but little is known ; and my wish is rather to make these ...
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