 | 1818 - 502 ページ
...which fills the mind with the greatest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the remotest distance, and continues the longest in action without...being tired or satiated with its proper .enjoyments. Beside the glowing colours ot the flowers, and the still enlivening verdure of the woods, the eye beholds... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 ページ
...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...a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that'enter at the eye, except colours; but at the same time it is very much straitened, and confined... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1819 - 550 ページ
...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...satiated " with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feel" ing can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, " shape, and all other ideas that enter at the... | |
 | 1860 - 520 ページ
...period of the same paper, — " 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 bemg tired or satiated with its proper eujoy mcuts." ' A single sentence should rarely consist of more... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 ページ
...: " It fills the mind (speaking of sight) with the " largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects " at the greatest distance ; and continues...being tired or satiated with its " proper enjoyments." Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division of the members and pauses,... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 ページ
...constructed in this manner. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance; and continues the...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. —Aildtion, Spectator. Here every reader must be sensible of a beauty, both in the division of the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 272 ページ
...unnecessary. He proceeds: Jt fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with Us objtcls at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being iired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. This sentence is remarkably harmonious, and well eonstructed.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 156 ページ
...sentence has still another beauty . It is figurative, without being too much so for the subject. " 'I he sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of...very much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects." This sentence is by no means so happy... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 320 ページ
...Atldison may" be given. " It £lls the mind with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." Here every reader must be sensible of beauty in the just distribution of the pauses, and in the manner... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 ページ
...fills the mind," speaking of sight, " with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its object at the greatest distance ; and continues the longest...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,... | |
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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... 
