 Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 85by Hugh Blair - 1811 - 838 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions ot them. 1 he mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to fancy itself... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 344 pages
...or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in tha soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 362 pages
...or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates everything that looks like a restraint upon... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul, at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like -restraint upon... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 342 pages
...or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness...amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it, and is apt to fancy itself... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such imbounded views; and feel a delightful stillness and amazement...requires any animadversion except the close, at the apprehension-of them. Not only is this a languid enfeebling conclusion of a sentence, otherwise beautiful,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...to grasp at any thing that is> too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleading astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul, at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates, every thing that looks like restraint upon... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded fiews, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul, at the apprehensions of them. The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like restraint upon it,... | |
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