 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...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 57by Hugh Blair - 1811 - 838 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...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 - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...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 - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...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 - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...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 pages
...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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