 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
 | Richard Green Parker - 1853 - Počet stránok 160
...his former services:" it should have been, " greatly increased the merit of his former services." " By the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean," &c. This passage ought to have had the word " terms " supplied, which... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1863 - Počet stránok 446
...this effect. . " Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be con Bidered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads...multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, ant brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe." 1 he parenthesis in the middle... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - Počet stránok 344
...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...of the imagination," or "fancy," (which I shall use promiscuously,) I here mean s such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - 1865 - Počet stránok 260
...the same pause and inflection which * terminates the member that immediately precedes it. EXAMPLES. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by the pleasure of the imagination or fancy ( which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1866 - Počet stránok 654
...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...reach 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,... | |
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - Počet stránok 362
...the whole. " Our sight," says Addison, " is the most perfect, and most delightful of all our senses It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas, so that by the pleasures of imagination—I mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in view,... | |
 | William Alexander - 1867 - Počet stránok 228
...signifies a lively conception of objects of sight." And Addison remarks—" It is the sense of sight which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by the pleasures of imagination I mean such as arise from visible objects. We cannot have a single image in the fancy that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - Počet stránok 688
...particular objects. Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and maybe considered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads...that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy 1 (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1872 - Počet stránok 360
...possessed in common with others. EXAMPLE. 4. "It is this sense which furnishes the imagination Kith its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) 1 here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1875 - Počet stránok 458
...with, otjtßrs. " Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be con sidered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads...multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, ani. brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe." This sentence is perspicuous,... | |
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