 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...  The Spectator - Страница 332по Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1818 - 400 страници
...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 of the flowers, and the still enlivening verdure of the woods, the eye beholds... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 300 страници
...sentence of Addison may be given. "It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas ; Converses with its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues the longest in action wilhQut being tired or satiated wilh its proper enjoyments." Here every reader must be sensible of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 364 страници
...repetition is unnecessary. lie proceeds : It fills the mind with the- largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in actiun, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyment*. This sentence is remarkably harmonious,... | |
 | 1819 - 344 страници
...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...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1819 - 510 страници
...be given : ' It fills the mind (speaking- of . sight) with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects at the greatest distance; and continues the longest in action, without beingtired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.' Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here,... | |
 | 1860 - 520 страници
...second 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 страници
...strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, withouf being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." This passage follows the order of nature.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 страници
...be given : " It fills the mind (speaking of sight) with the " largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects " at the greatest distance ; and...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 356 страници
...prevail. The following sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments/" This passage follows the order of nature. First, we have the variety of objects mentioned, which sight... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 страници
...sentence is constructed in this manner. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance; and continues...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... | |
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