There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret... The Spectator - Page 691778Full view - About this book
| English essays - 1753 - 382 pages
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| 1786 - 670 pages
...of ar; and nature, whidi does not work in in« imagination with that warmth andvi« Щ knee as tbe beauty that appears in our proper fpecies; but is...delight, and a kind of fondnefs for the places or objefts in which we difcover it. This confins either in the gaiety or variety of colours, in the fymmetry... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...in the colour of its fpecies. There is a'fecond kind of beauty that we find in the feveral produces of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination...beauty that appears in our proper fpecies, but is aptr however, to raife in us a fecret delight, and a kind of fondnefs for the places or objecls in... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...frodufts, to have ufed alfo the more proper word, productions. When he adds, that this kind of beauty " does not work in the imagination with that " warmth...as the beauty that appears !' in our proper fpecies ;" the language would certainly have been more pure and elegant, if he had faid, that it " does not... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 500 pages
...determined in his court/hip. " There is a fecond kind of beauty, that we " find in the feveral produces of art and nature , ** which does not work in the...that " appears in our proper fpecies, but is apt, how" ever, to raife in us a fecrtt delight, and a kind " of fondnefs for the places or objecls in which... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 416 pages
...pradu3s,to have ufed alfo the more proper word,prt>ductians. When he adds, that this kind of beauty doss not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in cur proper fpecies ; the language would certainly have been more pure and elegant, if he had faid,... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...plumes, that with paternal colours glow. There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in...violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...solem, patriisque coloribus ardet. i , There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in...violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt, however, to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...plumes, that with paternal colours glow. There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in...violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...determined in his courtship. • " There is a second kind of beauty, that we find in the seve^ *'• ral products of art and nature, which does not work in...violence, as the beauty that " appears in our proper species, but is apt, however to raise in. " us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places... | |
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