 | 1829 - Počet stránok 696
...carefully observed. The beauty of order strikingly appears in the following sentence. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...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,... | |
 | 1804 - Počet stránok 412
...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, converses...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 - Počet stránok 346
...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - Počet stránok 406
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - Počet stránok 330
...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 - Počet stránok 344
...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 - Počet stránok 330
...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, 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 - Počet stránok 362
...all our senses. It fills the mind with the lai> gest variety of ideas, converses with its objects af the greatest distance, and continues the longest in...can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and alt other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; butatthe same time it is very much strained,... | |
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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... 
