| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 páginas
...delightful, in the present case, there being no contrast, such a repetition was unnecessary. He proceeds : ' It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.' This sentence is remarkably harmonious, and well constructed. It possesses, indeed, most of the properties... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 páginas
...most sonoroas words, should be reserved to the conclusion. Example. " It fills the mind (ie sight) with the largest variety of ideas; converses with...longest in action, without being tired or satiated with iU propir enjoyments."! Analysis. Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper... | |
| Antoine Martin Bureaud-Riofrey - 1838 - 614 páginas
...says, " our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of all our senses ; it fills the mind with a variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." CHAP. XXX. On External Applications, Baths, Cosmetics, Stays, and Dress. ACCORDING to Epictetus, cleanliness... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 páginas
...observations on the eye, from the pen of Addison. 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 object at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 páginas
...tone, on the following syllables, — thus: 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 object at the GREATEST distance, and continues the longest in action, without being TIRED or satiated... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1838 - 280 páginas
...between perfect and deligjaful there is no contrast, such a repetition is unnecessary. He proceeds : It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with ill What is the subject of this lecture ? What shall we now commence ? — What will this suggest ?... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 páginas
...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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 páginas
...the type diminishes, to the close. EXAMPLE. OUR SIGHT IS THE MOST PERFECT, AND MOST DELIGHTFUL, OF ALL OUR SENSES. IT FILLS THE MIND WITH THE LARGEST...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... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 páginas
...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... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 páginas
...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... | |
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