 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...  The Spectator ... - Page 711803Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1839 - 702 pages
...this, the following sentence of Mr. Addison's may be given : " It fills the mind (speaking of sight) with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with...longest in action, without being tired or satiated v/ith its proper enjoyments." Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...more, so distinguishing the chief words, by the Italic character, as to exhibit the true pronunciation. Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful, of all our lenses It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with its objects at the greatest... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...most sonorous words, should be reserved to the conclusion. Example. " It fills the mind (ie sight) with the largest variety of ideas ; converses with...action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments."t Analysis. Every reader must be sensible of a beauty here, both in the proper division... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...of reading will be exhibited. "Our sight is the MOST perfect, the MOST delightful of all our eensea. It fills the mind with the largest VARIETY of ideas, converses with its objects at GREATEST distance, and continues the longest in action without being TIRED or satiated with its proper... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1843 - 326 pages
...following sentence is a beautiful example of strict 7 conformity to this rule. " Our sight nils tLe mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses...being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." This passage follows the order of nature. First, we have the variety of objects mentioned, which sight... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...the second ; and the voice obviously wanders off, as if to express a distinct and unconnected idea. "Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful...tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments." The uniform recurrence, then, of a high pitch at the beginning of every sentence, must have the effect... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...forth those qualities of style which have been discussed in Chapters ix.-xxi., Part ii.] EXAMPLE. 1. " Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses." CRITICISM. set bat. A first sentence should seldom be long, and never intricate. EX1MFLE. 3. " It fills... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1845 - 638 pages
...this, the following sentence of Mr. Addison's may be given: " It fills the mind (speaking of sight) with the largest variety of ideas; converses with...in action, without being tired or satiated with its It is necessary, however, to observe, that sentences, so constructed as to make the sound always swell... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...that all who wish to write the English language with elegance should study the pages of Addison. " Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of all our senses." This sentence is clear, precise, and simple. The author in a few plain words lays down the proposition,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...that all who wish to write the English lanmiage with elegance should study the pages of Addison. " Our sight is the most perfect, and most delightful of all our senses." This sentence is clear, precise, and simple. The author in a few plain words lays down the proposition,... | |
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