 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
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1878 - 314 pages
...his ege, he saw it plain — Upon the house-top, glittering bright, A broad and gilded vane." 5 . " The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward jotl, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties." 6 Words that are habitually... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...amount of time it occupied. HousihoM Words. BEAUTY. 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... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...survived their joys. Wordsworth, Prelude. BEAUTY. 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... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1881 - 324 pages
...glittering bright, A broad and gilded vane." 6 ' ' The very first discovery of it strikes them ind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties." * Words that are habitually coupled come to constitute a single idea, which requires... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1883 - 326 pages
...eye, he saw it plain — Upon the house-top, glittering bright, A broad and gilded vane." 5 " J"he very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an...and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties." 6 Words that are habitually coupled come to constitute a single idea, which requires... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...away from beneath the eye of the beholder. 6. But there is nothing 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 anything that is great or uncommon. The... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1887 - 332 pages
...Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru. 3. Keep off of the grass. 4. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with...and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties. 5. Common usage is not uniform and invariable. 6. He gives an interesting account of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1889 - 556 pages
...immediately diffuses a satisfaction and complacency tTirmigTiJjip gives a finish to anything that. js_ great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. T^OT-O iB : ^pf, perhaps any real beauty or deformity more_in one pi,ece o£,matter than _anpther,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1890 - 352 pages
...more forcibly by a single word. complacency through the imagination, and gives a finish to anything that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery...cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.' 'Nor are the multitude less excessive in their love than in their hatred, in their attachments than... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1891 - 326 pages
...house-top, glittering bright, A broad and gilded vane." 5 " The very first discovery of it striken the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties." 6 Words that are habitually coupled come to constitute a single idea, which requires... | |
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