 Imagination, but are able to disperse Grief and Melancholy, and to set the Animal Spirits in pleasing and agreeable Motions. For this Reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not thought it improper to prescribe to his Reader a Poem or...  An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric - Seite 103von Hugh Blair - 1818 - 216 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 Seiten
...prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, settled the notion of those pleasures of the imagination... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 Seiten
...prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, settled the notion of those pleasures of the imagination... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 Seiten
...prescribe to his reader a poem, or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions; and advises him to pursue studies that...the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as history, poetry, and contemplations of nature. plained at large, he may find it in Locke's Essay on... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 468 Seiten
...he particularly dissuades him from knotty " and subtile disquisitions, and advises him to pur" sue studies that fill the mind with splendid and " illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and con" templations of nature." In the latter of these two sentences, a member of the period is altogether... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 Seiten
...Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has uot thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem, or a prospect, •where he particularly dissuades him from...histories, fables, and contemplations of nature." In the latler of these two sentences, a member of the period is altogether out of its place ; which gives... | |
 | 1824 - 268 Seiten
...prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, settled the notion of those pleasures of the imagination... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. SPECTATOR, No. 412. I shall first consider those pleasures of the imagination which arise from the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 Seiten
...variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them ; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties ; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. If you fly physic in health altogether, it will be too strange for your body when you shall need it;... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 Seiten
...variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them ; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties ; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. If you fly physic in health altogether, it will be too strange for your body when you shall need it;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them ; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties ; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. If you fly physic in health altogether, it will be too strange for your body when you shall need it;... | |
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