Hidden fields
Books Books
" 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 213
by Alexander Chalmers - 1807
Full view - About this book

The Observer, Volume 2

Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1822 - 372 pages
...meets his eye — the following for instance — " There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses...with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and deligbt through all its faculties." Or again in the same essay : " We no where meet with a more glorious...
Full view - About this book

Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 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...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not, perhaps, any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another; because...
Full view - About this book

Observer

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 416 pages
...meets his eye—the following, for instance —' 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 very discovery of il strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through...
Full view - About this book

The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...sia^ht of such objects as are ever in motion, and sliding away from beneath the eye of the beholder. thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another, because...
Full view - About this book

The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...sight of such objects as are ever in motion, and sliding away from beneath the eye of the beholder. thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than anothei, because...
Full view - About this book

The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 33-34

British essayists - 1823 - 754 pages
...meets his eye ; the following, for instance — ' There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses...through the imagination, and gives a finishing to an}. thing that is great or uncommon : the very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward...
Full view - About this book

An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the ..., Volume 1

Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 716 pages
...readers, be deemed not very exceptionable. " But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty ; which immediately diffuses...and complacency through the imagination, and gives aftnishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind...
Full view - About this book

The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 8

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 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...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another, because...
Full view - About this book

English Grammar ...

Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 pages
...makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satis/action and complacency through the imagination, and gives...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...
Full view - About this book

Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another, because...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF