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" I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike. "
The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays ... - Page 111
by Richard Cumberland - 1817
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 42

British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...without affectation or distortion, and as it should seem without even an effort of art : In the Labcoon we have a complicated plot ; we unravel a maze of...so that I cannot verify what I have advanced by any itronger instance than his. I should think there does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths in...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated...
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The British Essayists;: Observer

Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 pages
...nature iu the ambition of surpassing her. Virgil possessed a fine taste according to Mr. Ad. dison's definition, which I before observed applies only to...there does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths ia imitation as Virgil; for to pass over his pastoral and bucolic poems, which are evidently drawn...
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The British Essayists;: Observer

Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 pages
...nature in the ambition of surpassing her. Virgil possessed a fine taste according to Mr. Ad. dison's definition, which I before observed applies only to...any stronger instance than his. I should think there docs not i_xist a poet, who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil ; for to pass over his pastoral...
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The Spectator, Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 pages
...is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the Imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated...
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The British Essayists: Observer

1823 - 380 pages
...figures ; but in the former we see beautiful simplicity, the fairest form in nature, selected by a fine taste, and imitated without affectation or distortion,...does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil ; for to pass over his pastoral and bucolic poems, which are evidently drawn from...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 33-34

British essayists - 1823 - 754 pages
...figures ; but in the former we see beautiful simplicity, the fairest . form in nature, selected by a fine taste, and imitated without affectation or distortion,...by any stronger instance than his. I should think thorp does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil ; for to pass over his...
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The British Essayists: Observer

James Ferguson - 1823 - 370 pages
...nature, he will produce beauty; if to what is lofty, bold, and tremendous, he will strike out sublimity. Virgil possessed a fine taste according to Mr. Addison's...does not exist a poet who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil; for to pass over his pastoral and bucolic poems, which are evidently drawn from...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 pages
...is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 pages
...is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated...
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