 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1845 - 638 pages
...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, wliere the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1849 - 650 pages
...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...at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose ite^'f amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation. Such wide and undetermined... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...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...its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objeets that offer themselves to its observation. Such wide and undetermined prospeets are as pleasing... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 pages
...neighbourhood of walls or mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where2 the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of 1 Very incorrect. It should be thus — There will be a mixture of delight, &c., according as, &c.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1860 - 652 pages
...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...range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity ot its views, and to lose it«"'f amidst the variety of objects that oflei themselves to its observation.... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1866 - 654 pages
...every side by the neighbourhood of walls or mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an ¡mage of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity ot its views, and to lose its'-'f amidst the variety of objects that offei themselves to its observation.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 pages
...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, where a the eye has room to range abroad, to' expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 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...its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objeets that offer themselves to its observation." The instance, here given, is liable to no objection.... | |
 | Samuel Fitch Hotchkin - Chestnut Hill (Pa.) - 1889 - 634 pages
...exemplifies the force of Addison's words in the Spectator (No. 412), on the Pleasure of the Imagination : " The mind of man naturally hates everything that looks...abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of his views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation.... | |
 | A. Meserole - English essays - 1896 - 450 pages
...unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. The mind of man naturally hates everything that looks...on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amid the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation. Such wide and undetermined prospects... | |
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... on every side by the neighbourhood of walls or mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to ex"patiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety... 
