 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 ... - Page 711803Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...be carefully observed. The beauty of order strikingly appears in the following sentence. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...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 - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...question not but it will be received with candour. ADDISON, ON THE PLEASURES OP THE IMAGINATION. No. 41 1. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful...The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of ex. tension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...inversions. The following is an example of natural construction : " Oi'.r sight is the most perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...inversions. The following is an example of natural construction : " Our sight is the 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 distance, and continues the longest in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...before I devious roam> And deep-enumour'd into latent springs Presume to peep at coy virgin Naiads. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful...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 - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination, in the Sixth Volume of the Spectator. It begins thus : " Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of all " our senses." This is an excellent introductory sentence. It is clear, precise, and simple. The author lays down,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...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, converses with its objects a: the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with... | |
 | 1807 - 530 pages
...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...perfect and delightful there is no contrast, such a repetition is unnecessary. He proceeds : It Jills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...action, without being tired or satiated •with its Jirnfler enjoyments. This sentence is remarkably harmonious, and well constructed. It is entirely perspicuous.... | |
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