 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1862 - 932 páginas
...in the Spectator. " There is one other opinion on which I wish to make some remarks : it is this : ' There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter thnn in another, because we might have been so made, that whatsoever now appears loathsome to us might... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 páginas
...diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to anything that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery...whatsoever now appears loathsome to us might have shewn itself agreeable ; but we find by experience that there are several modifications of matter,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 páginas
...uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a chearfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not...one piece of matter than another, because we might a have been so made, that whatsoever now appears loathsome to us, might have shewn itself agreeable... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 páginas
...superfluous. Addison is speaking of beauty, and " The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties."— Spect., No. 412. The Law of Plainness, with reference to language and the choice of words, may be stated... | |
 | English syntax - 1873 - 104 páginas
...power in Hungary, that he exposed the empire doubly to desolation and ruin for the sake of it. 25. There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than in another. 2(i. Are these designs which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances, in any... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1874 - 420 páginas
...atheism. By the pleasures of the imagination I mean only such pleasures as arise originally from sight. There is not, perhaps, any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another. Are these designs which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances, in any situation, ought... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to anything that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. ADDISON: Spectator, No. 412. There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 páginas
...caught his eye, he saw it plain — Upon the house-top, glittering bright, A broad and gilded vane." 6 " The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with...and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties." 8 Words that are habitually coupled come to constitute a single idea, which requires... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 páginas
...cauyht his eye, he saw it plain — Upon the house-top, glittering bright, A broad and gilded vane." 6 " The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with...and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties." * Words that are habitually coupled come to constitute a single idea, which requires... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 314 páginas
...his ege, he saw it plain — Upon the house-top, glittering bright, A broad and gilded vane." 5 . " The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward jotl, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties." 6 Words that are habitually... | |
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But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery... 
