 | English essays - 1788 - 330 pages
...talents, as in that of great and ftupendous natural objects, there is a fublimity which fills the foul with wonder and delight, which expands it, as it were, beyond its ufual bounds, and which, invefting our nature with extraordinary powers and extraordinary honours,... | |
 | 1788 - 338 pages
...talents, as in that of great and ftupendous natural objects, .there is a fublimity which fills the foul with wonder and delight, which expands it, as it were, beyond its ufual bounds, and which, invefting our nature with extraordinary powers and extraordinary honours,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1794 - 466 pages
...talents, as in that of great and ftupendous natural objects, there is a fublimity which fills the foul with wonder and delight, which expands it, as it were, beyond its ufual bounds, and which, inverting our nature with extraordinary powers and extraordinary honours,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 366 pages
...distinguished. In the view of highly superior talents, as in that of great and stupendous natural objects, there is a sublimity which fills the soul with wonder...honours, interests our curiosity and flatters our pride. This divinity of genius, however, which admiration is fond to worship, is best arrayed in the darkness... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 356 pages
...distinguished. In the view of highly superior talents, as in that of great and stupendous natural objects, there is a sublimity which fills the soul with wonder...investing our nature with extraordinary powers, and extraordmary honpurs, interests our curiosity and flatters our pride. This divinity of genius, however,... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...distinguished. In the view of highly superior talents, as in that of great and stupendous natural objects, there is a sublimity which fills the soul with wonder...honours, interests our curiosity and flatters our pride. This divinity of genius, however, which admiration is fond [to worship, is best arrayed in the darkness... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...distinguished. Intheview of highlysuperior talents, as in that of great and stupendous natural objects, there is a sublimity which fills the soul with wonder...usual bounds, and which, investing our nature with extraodinary powers and extraordinary honours, interests our curiosity and flatters our pride. This... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 802 pages
...distinguished. Jntheview of highlysuperior talents, as in that of great and stupendous natural objects, there is a sublimity which fills the soul with wonder...usual bounds, and which, investing our nature with extraodinary powers and extraordinary honours, interests our curiosity and flatters our pride. This... | |
 | James Marshall - Lodge Canongate Kilwinning (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1846 - 180 pages
...distinguished. In the view of highly superior talents, as in that of great and stupendous natural objects, there is a sublimity which fills the soul with wonder...honours, interests our curiosity and flatters our pride. This divinity of genius, however, which admiration is fond to worship, is best arrayed in the darkness... | |
 | James Marshall - Lodge Canongate Kilwinning (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1846 - 178 pages
...distinguished. In the view of highly superior talents, as in that of great and stupendous natural objects, there is a sublimity which fills the soul with wonder...extraordinary honours, interests our curiosity and flatters onr pride. This divinity of genius, however, which admiration is fond to worship, is best arrayed in... | |
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To the feeling and the susceptible there is something wonderfully pleasing in the contemplation of genius, of that supereminent reach of mind by which some men are distinguished. In the view of highly superior talents, as in that of great and stupendous... 
