 Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits...  The Spectator ... - Page 58edited by - 1898Full view - About this book
 | 1729 - 320 pages
...are worked ogt by Dint of Thinking, and attended with too violent a Labour of the Brain. Delightful Scenes, whether in Nature, Painting, or Poetry, have...Influence on the Body, as well as the Mind, and not only ferve to clear and brighten the Imagination, but are able to difperfe Grief and Melancholy, and to... | |
 | Benjamin Martin - Science - 1735 - 412 pages
...great and violent Labour of the Brain, Deligbt" ful Scenes, whether in Nature, Painting, or Poe" try, have a kindly Influence on the Body, as well " as the Mind ; and not only ferae to clear and *« brighten the Imagination, but are able to difperfe " Grief x The PREFAC E. «'... | |
 | 1767 - 334 pages
...too violent a labour of the brain. Delightful fcenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, nave a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only ferve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to difperfe grief and melancholy, and to... | |
 | 1778 - 342 pages
...with too violent a labour of the brain. Delightful fcenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetfy, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only ferve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to difperfe grief and melancholy, and to... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1784 - 412 pages
...converfafion, to''.b'e admitted, with propriety, into a po.* lifhed compofition. Delightful' fcenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind; anci not only ferve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to difperfe grief and melancholy,... | |
 | 1786 - 670 pages
...worked out by dint of thinking, and attended wiih too violent a labour of the brain. Delightful fcenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly...influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only ferve to clear and brighten the imaЕТЧЗООП, but are able to difperfe g;'ief and melancholy,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...for being employed in a polifhed compofition.. " Delightful fcones, whether in nature, paint" ing, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the " body, as well as the mind, and not only ferve ** to clear and brighten the imagination, but are " able to difperfe grief and melancholy, and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 416 pages
...colloquial language, to be proper for being employed in a polifhed compofition. , " Delightful fcenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, " have a kindly...influence on the body, as well as the mind, " and not only ferve to clear and brighten the imagination, " but are able to difperfe grief and melancholy, and to... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too violent a labour of the brain. Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting or poetry, have...not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a potm or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
...be admitted into polifhed compofition. Delightful fiefies, -whether in nature, painting, or pcetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as -well as the mind, and not onlyfervt to clear and brighten the imagination but are able to difperfe grief and melancholy, and... | |
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