 | Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - Počet stránok 316
...most sonorous words, should be reserved to the conclusion. Example. " It fills the mind (ie sight) with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. "| Analysis. Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division of the members... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - Počet stránok 702
...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...longest in action, without being tired or satiated v/ith its proper enjoyments." Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - Počet stránok 316
...the close. EXAMPLE. OUR SIGHT IS THE MOST PERFECT, AND MOST DELIGHTFUL, OF ALL OUR SENSES. IT FILLS THE MIND WITH THE LARGEST VARIETY OF IDEAS, CONVERSES...DISTANCE, AND CONTINUES THE LONGEST IN ACTION, WITHOUT BEINO TIRED OR SATIATED WITH ITS PROPER ENJOYMENTS. THE SENSE OF FEELING CAN INDEED GIVE US A NOTION... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - Počet stránok 314
...most sonorous words, should be reserved to the conclusion. Example. " It fills the mind (ie sight) with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with...action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments."t Analysis. Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - Počet stránok 428
...and unconnected idea. "Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." The uniform recurrence, then, of a high pitch at the beginning of every sentence, must have the effect... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - Počet stránok 372
...CRITICISM. set bat. A first sentence should seldom be long, and never intricate. EX1MFLE. 3. " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments." CRITICISM. This sentence is remarkably harmonious and well constructed. It is perspicuous, and loaded... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - Počet stránok 644
...unsearchable. ' Our sight (says Addison) is the most perfect and delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter the eye, except colours; but at the same time it is very much strained, and confined in its operation... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - Počet stránok 456
...perfect and deligluful there is no contrast, such a repetition is unnecessary. He proceeds : " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." This sentence is remarkably harmonious, and well constructed. It is entirely perspicuous. It is loaded... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1845 - Počet stránok 638
...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...in action, without being tired or satiated with its It is necessary, however, to observe, that sentences, so constructed as to make the sound always swell... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - Počet stránok 454
...unnecessary. He proceeds : " It fiBs the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its ob iects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." This sentence is remarkably haimonious, and well constructed. It is en tirely perspicuous. It is loaded... | |
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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... 
