 The cause is secret, but th' effect is known ADDISON. THOUGH in yesterday's paper we considered how every thing that is great, new, or beautiful, is apt to affect the imagination with pleasure, we must own that it is impossible for us to assign the necessary...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 104by Hugh Blair - 1811 - 838 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...have in the succeeding quotation : " Though in yesterday's paper, " we considered how every thing that is great, new, or " beautiful, is apt to affect the imagination with plea" sure, we must own that it is impossible for us to as* Swift's sermon on the Trinity. Sect. II... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...yesterday's paper we considered how every thing that is great, new, or beautiful, is apt to effect the imagination with pleasure, we must own that it is impossible- for us to assign the necessary cause of this pleasure, because we know neither the nature of an idea, nor the substance... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...THE IMAGINATION. PAPER III. No. 413. THOUGH in yesterday's paper we considered how every thing that is great, new, or beautiful, is apt to. affect the...must own that it is impossible for us to assign the necessary cause of this pleasure, because we know neither the nature of an idea, nor the substance... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...Causa latet, vis est notissima , OvID. JL HoUGH in yesterday's paper we considered how every thing that is great, new, or beautiful, is apt to affect the...must own that it is impossible for us to assign the necessary cause of this pleasure, because we know neither the nature of an idea, nor the substance... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...into several sentences, exhibits some other useful alterations : " In yesterday's paper, we showed that every thing which is great, new, or beautiful,...in speculations of this kind, is to reflect on the operations of the soul which are most agreeable, and to range under proper heads what is pleasing or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...follows the sentence in its original form : " Though in yesterday's paper we showed how every thing that is great, new, or beautiful, is apt to affect the...must own, that it is impossible for us to assign the necessary cause of this pleasure, because we know neither the nature of an idea, nor the substance... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...period into feveral fentences, exhibits fome other ufeful alterations : " In yefterday's paper, we mowed that every thing which is great, new, or beautiful, is apt to affeft th& imagination with pleafure. We muft own, that it is impoffible for us to affign the efficient... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...follows the sentence in its original form : " Though in yesterday's paper we showed how every thing that is great, new, or beautiful, is apt to affect the imagination with pleasu.-e, we must own, that it is impossible for us to assign the necessary cause of this pleasure,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...alteration : " In yesterday-s paper, we showed that every thing which is great, new, or beautiful, h apt to affect the imagination with pleasure. We must...in speculations of this kind, is to reflect on the operations of the soul which are most agreeable, and-to range under proper heads, what is pleasing... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 348 pages
...into several sentences, exhibits some other useful alterations : " In yesterday's paper, we showed that every thing which is great, new, or beautiful,...of the human soul. All that we can do, therefore, ki speculations of this kind, is to reflect on the operations of the soul which are most agreeable,... | |
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