 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
 | Silas Jones - Phrenology - 1836 - 348 pages
...of ideality and a quick sense of the beautiful. " 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 478 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...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...and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties.' Some degree of verbosity may be here discovered, as phrases are repeated which are... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1841 - 556 pages
...ENGLISH SYNONYMES. peculiar lo female beauty ; ' There is nothing that makes its way more directly to (he soul than beauty^ which immediately diffuses a secret...satisfaction and complacency through the Imagination/ — AUDISOK. The fine on the contrary is associated with the (rand, and the pretty with the simple.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1845 - 638 pages
...successfully imitate, may esteem themselves happy. But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses...imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that if great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 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...through the imagination, and gives a finishing to anything that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
...exposition. When the same author, speaking of beauty, says, " The very first discovery strikes the mind with inward " joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its " faculties," the sentence is pleonastic, as the sentiment contained in the last member is clearly a repetition of... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Intellect - 1850 - 522 pages
...rate, the pleasure exists. " There is nothing," says Mr. Addison, "that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacence through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great and uncommon.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 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 anything that is great or uncommon : the very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...complaceney through the imagination, and gives a finishing to anything that is great or uneommon : the very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a chcerfulness and delight through all its faculties." Or again in the same essay : 10 * , •'"-*.,.... | |
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