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Date: 1759
"His mind is continually occupied with what is too grand and solemn, to leave any room for the impressions of those frivolous objects, which fill up the attention of the dissipated and the gay."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1762
"In the latter passage, the most striking circumstances are selected to fill the mind with the grand and terrible. The former is a collection of minute and low circumstances, which scatter the thought and make no impression."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
