 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...  Select British Classics - Page 701803Full view - About this book
 | 1836 - 296 pages
...heighten the pleasure which we derive from beholding the works of nature. " Our sight," says Addison, " is the most perfect and most delightful of all our...with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its object at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...most sonoroas words, should be reserved to the conclusion. Example. " It fills the mind (ie sight) with the largest variety of ideas; converses with...longest in action, without being tired or satiated with iU propir enjoyments."! Analysis. Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...conclude this subject with the following beautiful observations on the eye, from the pen of Addison. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful...with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its object at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated... | |
 | Antoine Martin Bureaud-Riofrey - Physical education and training - 1838 - 614 pages
...stationary, but do not strengthen it, and they should not be used without absolute necessity. Addison says, " our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of all our senses ; it fills the mind with a variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...No. 411, the first of his celebrated Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination. 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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...more, so distinguishing the chief words, by the Italic character, as to exhibit the true pronunciation. Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful, of all our sensesit fills the mind with the largest variety of iiKus ; converses with its objects at the greatest... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1838 - 280 pages
...between perfect and deligjaful there is no contrast, such a repetition is unnecessary. He proceeds : It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with ill What is the subject of this lecture ? What shall we now commence ? — What will this suggest ?... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1839 - 316 pages
...most sonorous words, should be reserved to the conclusion. Example. " It fills the mind (ie sight) with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. "| Analysis. Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division of the members... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1839 - 702 pages
...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...longest in action, without being tired or satiated v/ith its proper enjoyments." Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...more, so distinguishing the chief words, by the Italic character, as to exhibit the true pronunciation. Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful, of all our lenses It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects at the greatest... | |
| |
