 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
 | A. Meserole - English essays - 1896 - 450 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 everything that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1896 - 870 pages
...beautiful or pretty, he may be fine or ?umdsome. There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses...satisfaction and complacency through the imagination. ADDISON. When , in ordinary discourse, we say a man has a Jine head, a long head, or a good head, we... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 316 pages
...Beauty, which immediately difiuses a secret Satisfaction and Complacency through the Imagina' tion, and gives a Finishing to any thing that is Great or...strikes the Mind with an inward Joy, and spreads a Chearfulness and Delight through all its Faculties, There is not per/ haps any real Beauty or Deformity... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 408 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... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 320 pages
...from beneath the Eye of the Beholder, {SJg; 23' 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 Imagina<< tion, and gives a Finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon, The very first Discovery... | |
 | 1905 - 634 pages
...all ages has prized so infinitely? "There is nothing," says Dryden, "that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses...complacency through the imagination and gives a finishing to everything that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - Materialism - 1920 - 120 pages
...elevates the character and fills the heart with wonder and love and gratitude, and, as Addison has said, "it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all the faculties." Only the wickedness and perversion of man can defile the world as it came from the... | |
 | English language - 1924 - 502 pages
...s voice, which sometimes we can hear \ Addison : There 's 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 and uncommon. From my own collections I may add : Sh Mcb I. iv. 4 I haue spoke... | |
 | Francisco Mirabent - Aesthetics - 1927 - 280 pages
...en la literatura y en el arte de sti época. Con ocasión de Hume insistiremos sobre este tema. (5) «Beauty which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction...and complacency through the imagination, and gives a flnishing to any thing that is great or uncommon.» bles tienen su distinta noción de la belleza,... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 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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