 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
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 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...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 - 538 pages
...repetition. It would have had no other effect, but to add a word unnecessarily to the sentence. He proceeds: It fills the mind with the largest 'variety of ideas,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. This sentence deserves attention, as remarkably harmonious and well constructed. It possesses, indeed,... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...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,...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. —Aildtion, Spectator. Here every reader must be sensible of a beauty, both in the division of the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1821 - 324 pages
...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 - English language - 1821 - 356 pages
...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...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments/" This passage follows the order of nature. First, we have the variety of objects mentioned, which sight... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 272 pages
...unnecessary. He proceeds: Jt fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with Us objtcls at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being iired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. This sentence is remarkably harmonious, and well eonstructed.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Magna viriiu1! tihi res autiquae laudis, et artis Ingredlor; saoctos nusus recludere fontes. VIRO. UIHI Sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of...action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyment. St1ccf. \° in, on the Pleasures of Imagination. PREFACE. THE following Poem takes its name... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 320 pages
...•conclusion. As an instance of this, the following sentence of Atldison may" be given. " It £lls the mind with the largest variety of ideas ; converses...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." Here every reader must be sensible of beauty in the just distribution of the pauses, and in the manner... | |
 | W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 pages
...they do what they can, to cast a cloud over them, that the, &c. Our sight is the most extensive and delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with...greatest . distance, and continues the longest in action, &c. The sense of feeling maygive us a notion of extension, of shape, and all other ideas which enter... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...fills the mind," speaking of sight, " with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its object at the greatest distance ; and continues the longest...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,... | |
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