 | C. C. Barfoot - English literature - 1999 - 368 pages
...sight is pent up in a narrow compass .... On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate...the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation.10 In moving naturally from the "mind of man" to the eye, from intellectual to visual experience,... | |
 | Margot Gayle Backus - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 308 pages
...(225). Unlike the male imperialist, who in the words of Joseph Addison seeks " 'a spacious Horizon . . . where the Eye has Room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the Immensity of its Views' " (cited in Gibbons, "Topographies" 28), Pidgie identifies personal autonomy with a restricted and... | |
 | James Noggle - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 288 pages
...for its Capacity" (vol. 3, 540). This exercise of the imagination reflects a similar one of reason: "Such wide and undetermined Prospects are as pleasing...Eternity or Infinitude are to the Understanding"^!). The next paper, number 413, also links the perception of grandeur with the contemplation of it, explaining... | |
 | Karsten Harries - Architecture - 2001 - 400 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...the variety of objects that offer themselves to its Observations.' Addison did not yet use the word "sublime," which became popular only later in the eighteenth... | |
 | William John Thomas Mitchell, W. J. T. Mitchell - Art - 2002 - 396 pages
...one of the "Pleasures of the Imagination." Addison wrote: "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 it self amidst the Variety of objects that offer themselves to its Observation. Such wide and undetermined... | |
 | Stefan Kaufmann - Social Science - 2005 - 376 pages
...mountains. On the contrary. a spacious horizon is an image of liberty. where the eye has room to ränge abroad. to expatiate at large on the immensity of...observation. Such wide and undetermined prospects are äs pleasing to the fancy, äs the speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding.'88... | |
 | Paul Guyer - Philosophy - 2005 - 386 pages
...continues, his account takes a subtle turn: he says that 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 otter themselves to its observation. Such wide and undetermined prospects are as pleasing to the fancy,... | |
 | Reference - 2004 - 516 pages
...imagination. — Marcel Proust The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. — Publilius Syrns Wide and undetermined prospects are as pleasing to the fancy, as the speculations of eternity or infrnitude are to the understanding. — -Joseph Addison 237 Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary... | |
 | Jan Godderis - Lesbians - 2006 - 468 pages
...the neighbourhood ofwalls or mountains. On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image ofliberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate...to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that 17. Cf. supra. offer themselves to its observation. Such wide and undetermined prospects are as pleasing... | |
 | T. C. W. Blanning - History - 2007 - 764 pages
...sight is pent up in a narrow compass ... 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... | |
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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... 
