The EmotionsC. Scribner's sons, 1880 - 255 oldal |
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æsthetic feeling affection animals appetence arises Aristotle association of ideas beauty become bodily body brain burst called cause character cherish circumstances colors comes contemplate countenance Darwin delight disappointment elements emotion evil excitement expression eyebrows fall fear felt flow forms Francis Hutcheson give Grant Allen gratified green grief harmony heart hope hopes and fears human humor impulse individual influence J. S. Mill kind Lake Lucerne Laura Bridgman laws lead lips look mankind ment mental mind moral mother motives mountains mouth moved muscles nature nerves nervous nostrils notice objects organic ourselves pain passion perception persons phantasm picturesque Plato pleasant pleasure produce rags falls raised relations rise Robert Burns round scenes SECTION seen sensation sense sentiment shy song sion sorrow soul spirit springs of action streams strong sublime swayed taste tears temper things thought tion tree whole
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166. oldal - But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
161. oldal - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
135. oldal - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
169. oldal - ... expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...
117. oldal - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
138. oldal - That the skin is much affected under the sense of great fear, we see in the marvelous and inexplicable manner in which perspiration immediately exudes from it. This exudation is all the more remarkable as the surface is then cold, and hence the term a ' cold sweat ; ' whereas the sudorific glands are properly excited into action when the surface is heated. The hairs also on the skin stand erect., and the superficial muscles shiver.
137. oldal - The frightened man at first stands like a statue motionless and breathless, or crouches down as if instinctively to escape observation. The heart beats quickly and violently, so that it palpitates or knocks against the ribs; but it is very doubtful...
75. oldal - When I am assailed with heavy tribulations I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill ; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour ; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.
168. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
120. oldal - Persons suffering from excessive grief often seek relief by violent and almost frantic movements, as described in a former chapter; but when their suffering is somewhat mitigated, yet prolonged, they no longer wish for action, but remain motionless and passive, or may occasionally rock themselves to and fro. The circulation becomes languid ; the face pale ; the muscles flaccid ; the eyelids droop; the head hangs on the contracted chest ; the lips, cheeks, and lower jaw all sink downwards from their...