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... Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 57by Hugh Blair - 1811 - 838 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...of all our senses. It tills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with iti objecti at the greatest distance, and continues the longest...action without being tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyment Sped No. 41 1, On the Pleasures of Imagination. Taf following poem takes its name from a... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 362 pages
...all our senses. It fills the mind with the lai> gest variety of ideas, converses with its objects af the greatest distance, and continues the longest in...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and alt other ideas that enter... | |
| Jonathan Morgan - English language - 1814 - 298 pages
...subject is perfectly familiar : as, " Our sight is the perfectest and delightfulest of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas...its objects at the greatest distance ; and continues longest in action, unfatigued and unsatisfied with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can,... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...PLEASURES O* THE IMAGINATION. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1815 - 382 pages
...perfect, and the most delightful, of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideus, converses with its objects at the greatest distance,...and continues the longest in action, without being iired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us_a notjon of... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 292 pages
...prevail. The following sentence is a beautiful example of strict conformity to this role. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...longest in action without being tired or satiated wilh its proper enjoyments." This pissage follows the order of nature. First, we have the varie'.y... | |
| Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...Our sight (as observed by an admirable writer) is the most perfect and delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...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 - English language - 1818 - 266 pages
...he is going to illustrate. A first sentence should seldom be long, and never intricate. " It (ills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...satiated with its proper enjoyments." This sentence is remarkably harmonious, and well constructed. It is entirely perspicuous. It is loaded with no unnecessary... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...reserved for tbe conclusion. As an instance of this, the following sentence of Addison may be given. "It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas...greatest distance ; and continues the longest in action wilhQut being tired or satiated wilh its proper enjoyments." Here every reader must be sensible of... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1818 - 400 pages
...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... | |
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