 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 468 pages
...amidst the variety of objects that offer them" selves to its observation. Such wide and unde" termined prospects are as pleasing to the fancy " as the speculations...eternity, or infinitude, " are to the understanding." Our author's style appears here in all that native beauty which cannot be too much praised. The numbers... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 expatiate...fancy, as the speculations of eternity, or infinitude, arc to the understanding." Our author's style appears here in all that native beauty which cannot be... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 pages
...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...to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that, VOL. VIU-.- K offer themselves to its observation. Such wide and undetermined prospects are as pleasing... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 expatiate...of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding. But if there be a beauty or uncommonness joined with this grandeur, as in a troubled ocean, a heaven... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...the neighbourhood of walls and mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate...of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding. But if there be a beauty or uncommonness joined with this grandeur, as in a troubled ocean, a heaven... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...and mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye lias room lo range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity...amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves toils observation. Such -wide and undetermined prospects are pleasing to the fancy, as the speculations... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...the neighborhood of walls and mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate...observation. Such wide and undetermined prospects are pleasing to the fancy, as the speculations of eternity, or infinitude, are to the understanding.' Our... | |
 | Ethelinda Margaretta Potts - 1832 - 256 pages
...neighbourhood of walls or mountains; on the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, when the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at...observation. Such wide and undetermined prospects are pleasing to the fancy, as the speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding." Note... | |
 | Spectator - 1832 - 280 pages
...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 expatiate...objects that offer themselves to its observation. iSuch wide and undetermined prospects as are pleasing to the fancy, as the speculation of eternity... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...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 expatiate...to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that ofler themselves to its observation. Such wide and undetermined prospects are pleasing to the fancy,... | |
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On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation. Such wide... 
