Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States (1840)
Combe, George, 1788-1858, Boardman, Andrew · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 225
to the conversation, in animated dis-course, splendour, sprightliness and buoyancy. It gives tastein furniture and dress : an elegant vase, couch or chair, orthe human form attired in dress in which grace, utility andbeauty combine, are objects which we delight to see, andwhich we feel to be… … Chaucer. Locke. CLaucer, and this of Locke, or this of Cobbett who hadno notion of any thing refined or leautiful in poetry or thearts, and ridiculed the manifestation of this sentiment.* *See his remarks on Shakspeare in Advic; to Young Mer, para-graph 77., and the following remarks en Miltois…
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