 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
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 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...imagination, borrowing more of their epithets from color, than from any other topic."* To this delight, which we derive from the perception of colors,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 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 everything that is great, strange, or beautiful, and is still more pleased... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1849 - 650 pages
...his words, it was necessary to change the expression, as I have done, into the plural number. 30 ' For this reason, we find the poets, who are always...the imagination, borrowing more of their epithets ! rom colours than from any other topic.' On this sentence nothing occurs, except a remark similar... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 162 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. 6. It is the custom of the Mahometans, if they see any printed or written paper upon the ground, to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1850 - 264 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 in human figure, throughout this kingdom, whose whole... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different stains of light thatshow 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those diflerent stains of light that shew themselves in clouds of a different situation. For...of their epithets from colours than from any other topie. As the fancy delights in every thing that is great, strange, or beautiful, and is still more... | |
| |
