 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 pages
...creation: but what a rough unsightly sketch of nature should we be entertained with, did all her colouring disappear, and the several distinctions of light and...we walk about like the enchanted hero in a romance, wTho sees beautiful castles, woods, and meadows; and, at the same time, hears the warbling of birds,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - English essays - 1864 - 344 pages
...entertained with, did all her colouring disappear, and the several distinctions of light and shade vanish 1 In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost...delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods, and meadows ; and, at the same time, hears the warbling... | |
 | W. Spalding - English literature - 1867 - 446 pages
...creation; but what a rough unsightly sketch of Nature should we be entertained with, did all her colouring disappear, and the several distinctions of light and...delusion: and we walk about like the enchanted hero in u romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods, and meadows, and at the same time hears the warbling... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1877 - 444 pages
...entertained with, did «11 her colouring disappear, and the several distinctions of light and shade vanish I In short* our souls are at present delightfully lost...delusion : and we walk about like the enchanted hero in H romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods, and meadows, and at the •aine time hears the warbling... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 380 pages
...creation. But what a rough, unsightly sketch of Nature should we be entertained with, did all her colouring disappear, and the several distinctions of light and shade vanish ! In short, our souls are delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 378 pages
...creation. But what a rough, unsightly sketch of Nature should we be entertained with, did all her colouring disappear, and the several distinctions of light and shade vanish ! In short, our souls are delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero... | |
 | Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 pages
...creation. But what a rough, unsightly sketch of Nature should we be entertained with, did all her colouring disappear, and the several distinctions of light and shade vanish ! In short, our souls are delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero... | |
 | Edward Young - Authorship - 1917 - 150 pages
...these arts of working on the imagination, I think Milton may pass for one. Spectator, No. 417. 1712: In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost...delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods, and meadows; and at the same time hears the warbling... | |
 | Edward Young - Authorship - 1917 - 140 pages
...these arts of working on the imagination, I think Milton may pass for one. Spectator, No. 417. 1712: In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost...delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods, and meadows; and at the same time hears the warbling... | |
 | Owen Barfield - English language - 1926 - 238 pages
...synonymously, describing in one of the essays how, because of the faculty of which they are the names, . . . our Souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered...in a pleasing Delusion, and we walk about like the inchanted Hero of a Romance, who sees beautiful Castles, Woods and Meadows ; and at the same time hears... | |
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In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods, and meadows... 
