 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - Страниц: 266
...hitherto had occasion to make, and will show in a practical light the use of those which have been made. " Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses." Mr. Addison, though one of the most beautiful writers in our language, is not the most correct ; a... | |
 | 1819 - Страниц: 344
...before, I devious roam, And dcep-enamour'd into latent springs Presume to peep at coy virgin Naiads. OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful...action without 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - Страниц: 342
...before, I devious roam, And deep-enamour'd into latent springs Presume to petp at coy virgin Naiads. Oua sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all...action without 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... | |
 | 1860 - Страниц: 520
...consults at the same time, the melodious flow of each. As in the second period of the same paper, — " It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...distance, and continues the longest in action without bemg tired or satiated with its proper eujoy mcuts." ' A single sentence should rarely consist of more... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1819 - Страниц: 510
...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...distance; and continues the longest in action, without beingtired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.' Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - Страниц: 718
...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...largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at ihe greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired, or satiated with its... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - Страниц: 538
...only open any page of Mr. Addison, to see quite a different order in the construction of Sentences. " Our sight is the most perfect, and most " delightful...without being tired, or satiated " with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feel" ing can, indeed, give us a notion of extension, ** shape, and all other... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - Страниц: 336
...words, should be reserved for the conclusion. The following sentence is constructed in this manner. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,...action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. —Aildtion, Spectator. Here every reader must be sensible of a beauty, both in the division... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - Страниц: 324
...prinThe 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...distance, and continues the longest in action without heing tired, or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - Страниц: 356
...strict conformity to this rule. " Our sight fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converges with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues...action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments/" This passage follows the order of nature. First, we have the variety of objects mentioned,... | |
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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... 
