 | 1729 - 320 pàgines
...Uncommon. The very firft Difcovery of it ftrikes the Mind with an inward Joy, and fpreads a Chearfulnefs and Delight through all its Faculties. There is not...Deformity more in one Piece of Matter than another, becaufe we might have been fo made, that whatsoever now appears loathfome to us, might have (hewn it... | |
 | 1764 - 236 pàgines
...Characters, or Manners of the Age, vip 112. mind ( 37 ) mind with an inward joy, and fpreads a chearfulnefs and delight through all its faculties. There is not...deformity more in one piece of matter than another, becaufe we might have been fb made that whatever now appears loathfome to us, might have fhown itfelf... | |
 | 1778 - 342 pàgines
...an inward joy, and fpreads a chearfulnefs and delight through M its faculties. There is not perhapj any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another, becaufe we might have been fb mnde, that whatfoever now appears loathfome to us, might have fhewn itfelf... | |
 | 1786 - 670 pàgines
...of it ftrikes the mind with an inward joy, and fpreads a chearfulncfs nnd delight through all it's faculties. There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece ef matter than another, becaufe we might have been fo made, that whatfoèver now appears loathfume... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pàgines
...uncommon. The very firft difcovery of it flrikes the mind with .m inward joy, and fpreads a cheerfulnels and delight through all its faculties. There is not....perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece cf matter than another ; becaufe we might have been fomade, that whatfoever now appears loathlome to... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1801 - 500 pàgines
...author is entering, and is more allowable here, than it would have been on fome other occafions. " There is not, perhaps, any real beauty or " deformity more in one piece of matter than " another; becaufe we might have been fo made; " that whatever now appears loathfome to us, " might have fliown... | |
 | 1803 - 376 pàgines
...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...whatsoever now appears loathsome to us, might have shewn itself agreeable; but we find by experience that there are several modifications of matter which... | |
 | 1803 - 436 pàgines
...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...whatsoever now appears loathsome to us, might have shewn itself agreeable ; but we find by experience that there are several modifications of matter which... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 300 pàgines
...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...strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a chearfulness and delight through all its faculties.' Or again in the same essay. • We no where meet... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pàgines
...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...more in one piece of matter than another, because \ve might have been so made, that whatsoever now appears loathsome to us, might have shown itself agreeable... | |
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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... 
