| Hugh Blair - 1793 - 518 pages
...Addilbn, and exhibit a ftyle, which they who can fuccefsfully imitate, may efteem themfelves happy. " But there is nothing that makes its way more " directly to the foul, than beauty, which imme*' diately diffufes a fecret fatisfaftion and cornpla" cency through the... | |
| 1803 - 376 pages
...sight of such objects as are ever in motion, and sliding away from beneath the eye of the beholder. • But there is nothing that makes its way more directly...The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not perhaps... | |
| British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...first paper of Mr. Addison the first paragraph that meets his eye — the following for instance — ' There is nothing that makes its way more directly...the very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a chearfulness and delight through all its faculties.' Or again in the same... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...sight of such objects as are ever in. motion, and sliding away from beneath the eye of the beholder. But there is nothing that makes its way more directly...The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a chearfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not perhaps... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...sight of such objects as are ever in motion, and sliding away from beneath the eye of the beholder. But there is nothing that makes its way more directly...The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. There is not perhaps... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pages
...sight of such objects as are ever in motion, and sliding away from beneath the eye of the beholder. But there is nothing that makes its way more directly...any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first dis. covcry of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 pages
...meets his eye — the following for instance — ' There is nothing that makes its way more direcdy to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses...the very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.' Or again in the same... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 pages
...meets his eye—the following for instance —' There is nothing that makes its way more di. rectly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses...finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon : the vry first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...Addison, and exhibit a Style, which they who can successfully imitate, may esteem themselves happy. " But there is nothing that makes its way more directly...than beauty » which immediately diffuses a secret sat*' isfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives? •* a finishing to any thing that... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 pages
...-motion, and sliding away from beneath the eye of the be•older. * But there is nothing that mates its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which...any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first dis. covery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through... | |
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