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acquainted admiration admit adopt Æneid affected agreeable Angelo appear argument authority Bernini blank verse cause cerning character choly circumstances common feeling conclusions correct courser criticism delight discern discover discussion distinct doubt elegant emotion equally error excite existence expression exquisite faculty false fashion forms founded genius give habit Homer Hudibras ideas of beauty ignorant Iliad imagination imitation impression influence intellectual ject judgment Knight knowledge less Lord Kames Madame de Staël manner matters of taste melan ment Milton mind nature necessarily never observed obvious opinion original Ossian painting passage passion perceive perception perfect philosophy pleasing pleasure poetry poets Pope possess present principles of taste produce prove Ptolemy qualities of beauty racter reason refined Rembrandt render rience Satan says scepticism sensation sense sensibility sentiment shew shewn Sir Joshua Reynolds style subject of taste sublime suppose tain Theramene thing thought tion true truth tural Virgil writers