| Edmund Burke - 1805 - 996 páginas
...Truth," with the addition of the other ingenious " Essays on Poetry and Music, as they affect the Mind, on Laughter, and ludicrous Composition, and on the utility of Classical Learning," which were not originally designed for the press, but which some of these friends had seen and desired... | |
| James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1805 - 190 páginas
...reached that sum. The Essays added to this volume, and which he afterwards printed separately in octavo, were " On Poetry and Music ;" on " Laughter and ludicrous...years before publication, and besides being read in a private literary society, had been submitted to the judgment of hi& learned friends in England, who... | |
| Library Company of Philadelphia (PHILADELPHIA) - 1807 - 682 páginas
...By James Beattie. London, 1783. . . 1209, 0. Essays, on poetry and music, as they affect the mind ; on laughter and ludicrous composition ; and on the utility of classical, learning. By James Beattie. ' Edinburgh, 1778. — 1430, O. The minstrel ; with other poems. By James Beattie.... | |
| James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 308 páginas
...reached that sum. The Essays added to this volume, and which he afterwards printed separately in octavo, were " On Poetry and Music," on " Laughter and ludicrous...years before publication, and besides being read in a private literary society, had been submitted to the judgment of his learned friends in England, who... | |
| John Walker - 1811 - 572 páginas
...Dr. Beattie, lately printed at Edinburgh, in a large quarto volume, consisting of " Essays on Truth : on Poetry, and Music : on Laughter' and Ludicrous...Composition : and on the Utility of Classical Learning." Your readers will, I doubt not, be pleased with the sentiments of this philosopher upon so curious... | |
| London Institution, London Institution. Library - 1813 - 938 páginas
...War in the Mysore. 4to. Land. 1800 Seattle's (James) Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth : on Poetry and Music ; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition ; and on the Utility of Classical Learning. 4to. Edin. 1776 Seattle's (James) Moral and Critical Dissertations. 4to. Londv 1783 Beattie's (James)... | |
| 1821 - 406 páginas
...that part of my book with a second perusal, he would find that his notions and mine are not very • On Poetry and Music, on Laughter and Ludicrous Composition, and on the Utility of Classleal Learning. t Alexander Fraser Tytler, esq. afterwards lord Woodhouselee. different. To me,... | |
| Samuel Parr, Henry George Bohn - 1827 - 758 páginas
...Beattie's (J.) Essays on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism ; on Poetry and Music, on Laughter and Ludicrous Composition, and on the Utility of Classical Learning, 4to. Edinb. 1776 Bentham's (Jeremy) Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789—... | |
| Frances Mary Richardson Currer, Charles James Stewart - 1833 - 550 páginas
...Criticism. (Works, Vol. I.) Beattie's (James) Essays on Poetry and Music, as they affect the mind ; on Laughter and Ludicrous Composition ; and on the Utility of Classical Learning. 8vo. Edin. 1788. Burnett's (Geo.) Specimens of English Prose Writers to the close of the 17th century... | |
| 1834 - 602 páginas
...as he had pretended. In 1776. he published, by subscription, a new edition of his ciuav, with others on Poetry and Music : on Laughter and Ludicrous Composition ; and on the I tiiity of Classical Learning ; all of which be treated in a very masterly manner. In 1781, appeared... | |
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