 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 the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Strana 57podľa Hugh Blair - 1811 - Počet stránok 838Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1829 - Počet stránok 696
...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 - Počet stránok 424
...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,... | |
 | 1803 - Počet stránok 376
...streams, and cjaench my thirst. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest "variety of ideas,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of 'extension , shape, and all other ideas that enter... | |
 | 1804 - Počet stránok 412
...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 variety of ideas,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of ex. tension, shape, and all other ideas that enter... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - Počet stránok 578
...Atque haurire • « • LUCR. R sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses : it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - Počet stránok 348
...natural construction : " Our sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...being tired, or satiated with, its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, shape, and ail other ideas that enter... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - Počet stránok 350
...most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variely of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest...and continues the longest in action, without being lived, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - Počet stránok 350
...natural construction : " Oi'.r sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the gVeatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with its proper... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - Počet stránok 346
...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 - Počet stránok 530
...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... | |
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