 more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination...  The British Essayists: The Spectator - Strana 107podľa Alexander Chalmers - 1802Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - Počet stránok 538
...simply, its objects. Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads...infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest Jigures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. . Here again the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - Počet stránok 706
...would appear to be limited to objects of sight. " It is the sense of sight," (says Mr. Addison,) " which furnishes the Imagination with its ideas ; so that by the " pleasures of Imagination, I here mean such as arise from visible " objects, either when we have them actually in... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - Počet stránok 382
...imagination would appear to be limited to objects of sight. "It is the sense of sight," (says Mr. Addison,) " which furnishes the Imagination with its ideas ; so that by the " pleasures of Imagination, I here mean such as arise from visible " objects, either when we have them actually in... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - Počet stránok 320
...immediately afterward. Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a mnre delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads...brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of tht universe. This sentence is perspicuous, graceful, well arranged, and highly musical. Its constructionisso... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - Počet stránok 844
...its particular objects. Sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehending the largest figures, and bringing into our reach some of the most remote parts of the... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - Počet stránok 230
...sentence, which is not a necessary member of it, and which does not affect its construction; as, " By the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously), I here mean such as arise from visible objects." The Parenthesis requires a slight... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - Počet stránok 380
...particular objects. Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads...the imagination,' or ' fancy,' (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - Počet stránok 380
...that supply all these defects, and may be considered as ,spreads itself over an infinite tnultitude of bodies,' comprehends the largest figures, and brings...the imagination,' or ‘fancy,' (which I shall use promiscñ¿ ously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - Počet stránok 468
...its objects." " Our sight seems designed to supply all these " defects, and may be considered as a more delicate " and diffusive kind of touch, that..." some of the most remote parts of the universe." Here again the author's style returns upon us in all its beauty. This is a sentence distinct, graceful,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - Počet stránok 320
...common with others. " Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads...reach some of the most remote parts of the universe." This sentence is perspicuous, graceful, well arranged, and highly musical. Its construction is so similar... | |
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