 | 1803 - 376 pàgines
...strangeness of its appearance: itserves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | 1803 - 436 pàgines
...strangeness of its appearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...on a monster, and makes even the imperfections of na1ure please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pàgines
...strangeness of its appearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes oft from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called ofl'to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pàgines
...strangeness of its appearance : it serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something; new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pàgines
...strangeness of its ap" pearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes " off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual " and ordinary entertainments. The Style in these sentences flows in an easy and agreeable manner. A severe critic might point out... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 pàgines
...strangeness of its appearance. It serves ns for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...that bestows charms on- a monster, and makes even the imper. fections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pàgines
...fora kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual ami ordinary entertainments. It is this that bestows charms...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pàgines
...strangeness of its appearance ; it serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 pàgines
...strangeness of its appearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary entertainments. It is this that;bestows charms on a monster, and makes even the imperfections of nature please us. It is this... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pàgines
...strangeness of its appearance ; it serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes °ff from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary...imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered... | |
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... whatever is new or uncommon contributes a little to vary human life, and to divert our minds, for a while, with the strangeness of its appearance. It serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in... 
