| 1829 - 696 lehte
...be carefully observed. The beauty of order strikingly appears in the following sentence. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." First, we have the rise of ideas from sensible objects, and subsequently their progress and duration.... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 424 lehte
...this, the following sentence of Mr. Addison may be given. " It " fills the mind," speaking of sight, " with the ** largest variety of ideas ; converses with...being tired or " satiated with its proper enjoyments." Here every reader must be sensible of a beauty, both in the just division of the members and pauses,... | |
| 1804 - 412 lehte
...ON THE PLEASURES OP THE IMAGINATION. No. 41 1. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest...The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of ex. tension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 lehte
...springs Presume to peep at coy virgin Naiads. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at tha greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its... | |
| 1807 - 530 lehte
...sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with ihe largest •variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and con'.inuco the longest in action, without bfing tired or satiated with its proper enjoyment." This... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 lehte
...this, the following Sentence of Mr. Addison's may be given : " It fills the mind (speaking of sight) with the largest " variety of ideas; converses with its objects at the greatest dis" tance ; and continues the longest in action, without being " tired or satiated with its proper... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 lehte
...perfect and delightful there is no contrast, such a repetition is unnecessary. He proceeds : It Jills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...action, without being tired or satiated •with its Jirnfler enjoyments. This sentence is remarkably harmonious, and well constructed. It is entirely perspicuous.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 lehte
...our senses. It fills the mind with the largest rariety of ideas, converses with its objects at tfie greatest distance, and continues the longest in action...proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed giva us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 lehte
...is an example of natural construction : " Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest...converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and contmues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 662 lehte
...Ingrcdior, sanctos ausus rccludere fontes. Virg. Our eight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest...longest in action without being tired, or satiated with ¡is proper enjoyment • • Spect No. 41 1 , On the Pleasures of Imagination. PREFACE. Тнж following... | |
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