 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 - Էջ 69Hugh Blair - 1822 - 304 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1829 - 696 էջ
...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 - 1801 - 424 էջ
...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 էջ
...streams, 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,...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 էջ
...OP THE 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,...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 էջ
...Atque 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,...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 - 1805 - 348 էջ
...natural construction : " Our sight is the most perfect, and the 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 ail other ideas that enter... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 էջ
...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 էջ
...natural 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 էջ
...to peep 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... | |
 | 1807 - 530 էջ
...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... | |
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