Among these several kinds of beauty the eye takes most delight in colours. We no where meet with a more glorious or pleasing show in nature than what appears in the heavens at the rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different... The Emotions and the Will - Page 255by Alexander Bain - 1859 - 649 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1786 - 670 pages
...clouds of a different fnuation. For this reafon we find the poets, who are always nddreflingthemfelves to the imagination, borrowing more of their epithets from Colours than from any other topic. As the fancy delights in every thing thnt is great, ftrange, or beautiful, and is lull more pleafed... | |
| William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...clouds of a different fituation. For this reafon we find the poets, who are always addrtffmg themfelves to the imagination, borrowing more of their epithets from colours than from any other topic. As the fancy delights in every thing that is great,. grange, or beautiful, and is ftill more pleafed... | |
| 1803 - 376 pages
...nature' than what appears in the heavens at the rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different stains of light that show themselves...their epithets from colours than from any other topic. As the fancy delights in every thing that is great, strange or beautiful, and is still more pleased,... | |
| 1803 - 436 pages
...rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different stains of light that shew themselves in clouds of a different situation. For...their epithets from colours than from any other topic. As the fancy delights in every thing that is great, strange, or beautiful, and is still more pleased... | |
| British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...nature, than what appears in the heavens at the rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different stains of light, that show themselves in clouds of a different situation.' A florid writer would hardly have resisted the opportunities, which here court the imagination to indulge... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...nature, than what appears in the heavens at the rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different stains of light that show themselves...addressing themselves to the imagination, borrowing mcrfe of their epithets from colours than from any other topic. As the fancy delights in every thing... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different stains of light that shew themselves in clouds of a different situation. For this reason we find the poets, who arc always addressing themselves to the imagination, borrowing more of their epithets from colours... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 pages
...nature, than what appears in the heavens at the rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different stains of light, that show themselves in clouds of a different situation.' A florid writer would hardly have resisted the opportunities which here court the imagination to indulga... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...than what " appears in the heavens at the rising and setting of the sun, *' -which is wholly made np of those different stains of light, " that show themselves in clouds of a different situation." Which is here designed to connect with the word s/zcw, as its antecedent ; but it stands so wide from... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 542 pages
...nature, than what appears in the heavens at the rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different stains of light, that show themselves in clouds of a different situation. There will be found a round million of creatures 3n human figure, throughout this kingdom, whose whole... | |
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