 I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices,...  Lectures on rhetoric &c - Стр. 420авторы: Hugh Blair - 1820Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1729 - Страниц: 320
...Rocfcs and Precipice^ er a wide Expanfe of Waters, where we are not ftvuclc with the Novelty or Beaifty of the Sight, but with that rude kind of Magnificence which appears in many of thefe ftupendous Works of Nature. Our Imagination foves to be filled with an Object, or to grafp at... | |
 | 1767 - Страниц: 334
...precipices, or a wide expanfe of water, where we are not ftruck with the novelty or beauty of the fight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of thefe ftupendous works of Nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an objeft, or to grafp at... | |
 | 1778 - Страниц: 342
...precipices, or a wide expauie of waters, where we are not ftruck with the novelty or beauty of the fight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of thefe ftnpendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or tografpatany... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - Страниц: 416
...precipices, or awide expanfe of waters; where weare not flmck with the novelty or beauty of the fight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of thefe fhipendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grafp at... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1793 - Страниц: 518
...or a wide expanfe of waters, where we are not *' ftruck with the novelty, or beauty of the fight, *' but with that rude kind of magnificence which " appears in many of thefe flupendous works of *' nature." This fentence, in the main, is beautiful. The objects prefented... | |
 | 1803 - Страниц: 376
...prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters,...not struck with the novelty or beauty of the sight, hut with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous works of nature.... | |
 | 1803 - Страниц: 420
...uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks, and precipices, or a wide expanse of water, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty...with that rude kind of magnificence which appears iu many of these stupendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - Страниц: 578
...prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncuU tivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters,...magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous works pf nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too... | |
 | 1804 - Страниц: 412
...uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of water, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty...appears in many of these stupendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - Страниц: 406
...desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high '' rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters, where w& a are not struck with the novelty, or beauty of the...in the main is beautiful. The objects presented are ajl of them noble, selected with judgment, arranged with propriety, and accompanied with proper epithets.... | |
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