 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 - Seite 148von Richard Cumberland - 1826 - 338 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 554 Seiten
...shown the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occaVOL. XII. M sion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 356 Seiten
...propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occaTOL. XII. M sion, I think 1 may define it to be '4hat faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of...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... | |
 | 1803 - 420 Seiten
...writing, and shewn the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns...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... | |
 | 1803 - 376 Seiten
...writing, and shewn the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, 'which discerns...with plea'sure, 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 300 Seiten
...definition, which I before observed, applies only to an acquired taste : He had the ' faculty of discerning the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike : He had also the faculty of imitating what he discerned; so that I cannot verify what I have advanced... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 Seiten
...writing, and shewn the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul, which discerns...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 572 Seiten
...writing, and shewn the propriety of the metaphor which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul, which discerns...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 Seiten
...considered either as sensitive or mental ; and under each of these denominations is sometimes spoken of as natural, sometimes as acquired ; I propose to...faculty exercised by those who produced those works ? Mow does it serve to develope the taste of an author, the taste of a painter or a statuary ? And... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 666 Seiten
...acquired ; I propose to treat of it in its intellectual construction only, and in this sense Mr. Addisou defines it to be that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an anthor with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. This definition may very properly apply to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 Seiten
...definition, which I before observed applies only to an acquired taste : He had the ' faculty of discerning the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike : He had also the faculty of imitating what he discerned; so that I cannot verify what I have advanced... | |
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