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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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