But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery... The British Essayists;: Observer - Page 213by Alexander Chalmers - 1807Full view - About this book
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
....persons, ;he deemed npt very exceptionable. ii But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses...or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes ihe mind with inward joy, •and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its facvkJuas." Some... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 352 pages
...very exceptionable. " But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to. the soul than bcif&ty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and'...The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with inward joy,and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties." Some degree of verbosity... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 362 pages
...sliding away from beneath the eye of the beholder. But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses...finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The veryfirst discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1811 - 464 pages
...diffuses a secret satisfaction and complafl cency through the imagination, and gives a finish" ing to any thing that is great or uncommon, " The very...cheerfulness " and .delight through all its faculties." S';ME degree of verbosity may be here discover, ed, as phrases are repeated which seem little more... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...eye of the beholder. But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul, than bcauti/i which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not, perhaps, any real beauty of deformity more in one piece of matter than another ; because... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the sou! than beauty, which immediately cliff uses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.' Some degree of verbosity may be here discovered, and phrases repeated, which are little more than the... | |
| Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1815 - 434 pages
...direetly to the soul than beauty, whieh, immediately diffuses a seeret satisfaetion and eomplaeence through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great and uneommon. The very first diseovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a eheerfulness... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 292 pages
...persons, be deemed not very exceptiorab'e. ''But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses...finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The veiy first discovery of it strikes the mind with inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...gliding away from beneath the eye of the beholder. But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul, than beauty, which immediately diffuses...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not perhaps, any real beauty or deformity more in one piece ot matter than another ; because... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...themselves happy. • But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, wliich immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency...first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward jov, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.' Some degree of verbosity may... | |
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