On Beauty : Three Discourses Delivered in the University of Edinburgh ;
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I hope you will feel yourselves now ready to gird up your loins for the perusal of the Philebus, and other master treatises of Plato, with some object more worthy of a rational being than hunting out an Atticism, torturing a various reading with the idea of motion.' (2.) As the art of the poet is, in a great measure, nothing else than the gathering round some noble figure, or feeling, or thought, by the electric excitement of genius, such a congregation of kindred noble figures, feelings, or th...oughts, as shall most richly embellish his theme, it is manifest that merely accidental associations, .if skilfuUy used, may here be made to play, and do in fact often play, no inconsiderable part ; and this, no doubt, is one of the facts which deceived Jeffrey and Alison into a belief in their twinkling sophism : they, in common with other writers on this sub- ject, having had poetry, and its wide fields of familiar discursiveness, in their eye more directly than the more fixed and limited opera- tions of the Fine Arts.
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