 But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery...  Selections from the Spectator of Addison and Steele - Strana 312podľa A. Meserole - 1896 - Počet stránok 410Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - Počet stránok 702
...have been on some other occasions. " There is not, perhaps, any itui Beauty or deformity more in cue piece of matter than another ; because we might have been so made, that whatever now appears loathsome to us, law shown itself agreeable ; but we find by experience, that... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - Počet stránok 326
...be opposed to polytheism or atheism."_ ,, " Theism can be opposed only to polytheism or atheism." " There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity, more in one piece of matter, than in another.' " There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity in one piece of matter, more than... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1862 - Počet stránok 914
...in the Spectator. " There is one other opinion on which I wish to make some remarks: it is this : ' There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than in another, because we might have been so made, that whatsoever now appears loathsome to us might have... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1843 - Počet stránok 326
...sight." In the following sentence, the word mart is not in its proper place. " There is not, perkaps, any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another." The phrase ought to have stood thus: " Beauty or deformity in one piece of matter more than in another."... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1845 - Počet stránok 638
...secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that if great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. Some degree of verbosity may be here discovered, as phrases are repeated which seem little more than... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - Počet stránok 522
...satisfaction and complacence through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great and uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties." As we ascribe beauty, not only to persons, but to inanimate things, we give the name of love or liking... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - Počet stránok 162
...exposition. When the same author, speaking of beauty, says, " The very first discovery strikes the mind with inward " joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its " faculties," the sentence is pleonastic, as the sentiment contained in the last member is clearly a repetition of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - Počet stránok 780
...diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to anything that is great or uncommon : the very first discovery...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. " Or again in the same e«aa:j '102 CUMBERLAND. [GEORGE in. " We nowhere meet with a more glorious... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - Počet stránok 768
...complaceney through the imagination, and gives a finishing to anything that is great or uneommon : the very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a chcerfulness and delight through all its faculties." Or again in the same essay : 10 * , •'"-*.,.... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - Počet stránok 548
...diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery...through all its faculties. There is not perhaps any real heauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another, because we might have been so made, that... | |
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