 | 1840 - 530 pages
...was too rigid to be affected by higher interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature, or of art had no power. He had no leisure feeling which...existence and operation by falling into the grand one." " There have not been wanting trivial minds to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 pages
...was too rigid to be affected by higher interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature or of art had no power. He had no leisure feeling which...their separate existence and operation by falling into ihe grand one." " There have not been wanting trivial minds to mark this as a fault in his character.... | |
 | Robert Stephens McAll - 1840 - 500 pages
...faculties in a state of excite" ment which was too rigid to be affected by lighter " interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of " nature and of art had no power; like the invisible " spirits who fulfil their commission of philanthropy " among mortals, and care... | |
 | Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - 1840 - 440 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement, which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art had no power."* There is no improvement in the works of the imagination, for this reason ; they are the invention of... | |
 | John Waddington - 1844 - 82 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement, which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art had no power — like the invisible spirits, who fulfil their commission of philanthropy among mortals, and care... | |
 | George Combe - 1845 - 498 pages
...leisure feeling which he could sr>arcto H» diverted among the innumerable varieties of the- exleaaive T br-faEing into the grand one. There have not been wtntirs trivial minds, to mark this as a fault in... | |
 | John Foster - 1846 - 370 pages
...faculties in a state of determination which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed ; his ^subordinate feelings nearly lost their separate existence and operation, by falling into the... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1846 - 596 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was " too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, " therefore, the beauties of nature and of...had no leisure feeling which he could spare to be di" verted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive " scene which he traversed ; all his subordinate... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and art had no power. \ He had no leisure feeling which he could ( ) spare, / all his subordinate feelings / lost their separate existence, by falling into the grand one. Such... | |
 | John Foster - 1847 - 368 pages
...faculties in a state of determination which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed ; his subordinate feelings nearly lost their separate existence and operation, by falling into the... | |
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... the main object. The importance of this object held his faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art had no power. He had no leisure feeling... 
