On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation. Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator" - Page 268by Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 pages
...numberless instances in Mr. Addison's writings ; as in the next of his papers on the imagination — ' the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at...objects that offer themselves to its observation. ' " The instance here given is liable to no objection. But there is danger, no doubt, lest this attention... | |
| Tadeusz Grabowski - 1918 - 628 pages
...under a sort of confinement, when the sight is pent up in a narrow compass, and shortened on every side by the neighbourhood of walls or mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of libertyn8... Tajemnicą rozkoszy estetycznej jest właśnie wyobraźnia, gdyż ona sprawia, że coś... | |
| Tadeusz Grabowski - 1918 - 642 pages
...under a sort of confinement, when the sight is pent up in a narrow compass, and shortened on every side by the neighbourhood of walls or mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty«l... Tajemnicą rozkoszy estetycznej jest właśnie wyobraźnia, gdyż ona sprawia, że coś... | |
| Karsten Harries - 1968 - 183 pages
...under a sort of Confinement, when the Sight is pent up in a narrow Compass, and shortened on every side by the Neighbourhood of Walls or Mountains. On the...the Variety of Objects that offer themselves to its Observation.12 The sublime is "the image of Liberty." In his Meditations Descartes suggests that what... | |
| Karsten Harries - 1968 - 183 pages
...under a sort of Confinement, when the Sight is pent up in a narrow Compass, and shortened on every side by the Neighbourhood of Walls or Mountains. On the...the Variety of Objects that offer themselves to its Observation.12 The sublime is "the image of Liberty." In his Meditations Descartes suggests that what... | |
| Rob Wilson - 1991 - 358 pages
...under a sort of Confinement when the Sight is pent up in a narrow Compass, and shortened on every side by the Neighbourhood of Walls or Mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horison is an Image of Liberty, where the eye has Room to range abroad." Hence, though sequestered... | |
| Stephanie Ross - 1998 - 308 pages
...landscape and of gardens: freedom and health. Regarding the first of these, he declares: A spacious Horison is an Image of Liberty, where the Eye has Room to...at large on the Immensity of its Views, and to lose it self amidst the Variety of Objects that offer themselves to its Observation. Such wide and undetermined... | |
| Margot Gayle Backus - 1999 - 308 pages
...(225). Unlike the male imperialist, who in the words of Joseph Addison seeks " 'a spacious Horizon . . . where the Eye has Room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the Immensity of its Views' " (cited in Gibbons, "Topographies" 28), Pidgie identifies personal autonomy with a restricted and... | |
| J. F. Merritt - 2001 - 332 pages
...reinforced by Addison's stress on the importance and value of an unfettered perspective, 'a spacious Horison is an Image of Liberty, where the Eye has Room to range abroad', the pertinence of which was not lost in the close-packed streets and alleys of the city.60 In this... | |
| Karsten Harries - 2001 - 400 pages
...sight is pent up in a narrow compass, and shortened on every side by the neighborhood of walls and mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is...the variety of objects that offer themselves to its Observations.' Addison did not yet use the word "sublime," which became popular only later in the eighteenth... | |
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