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... An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick - Página 93por Hugh Blair - 1822 - 304 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1829 - 696 páginas
...carefully observed. The beauty of order strikingly appears in the following sentence. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." First, we have the rise of ideas from sensible objects, and subsequently their progress and duration.... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 424 páginas
...this, the following sentence of Mr. Addison may be given. " It " fills the mind," speaking of sight, " with the ** largest variety of ideas ; converses with...enjoyments." Here every reader must be sensible of a beauty, both in the just division of the members and pauses, and the manner in which the sentence... | |
| 1803 - 376 páginas
...and cjaench my thirst. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest "variety of ideas, converses...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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...haurire • « • LUCR. R sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses : it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...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... | |
| 1804 - 412 páginas
...IMAGINATION. No. 41 1. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of ex. tension, shape, and all other ideas that enter... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 páginas
...most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variely of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest...and continues the longest in action, without being lived, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 páginas
...construction : " Oi'.r sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the gVeatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired, or satiated with its proper... | |
| 1807 - 530 páginas
...sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with ihe largest •variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and con'.inuco the longest in action, without bfing tired or satiated with its proper enjoyment." This... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 páginas
...at coy virgin Naiads. 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 tha greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 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 its objects at the greatest dis" tance ; and continues the longest in action, without being " tired or satiated with its proper... | |
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