 | 1803 - 376 páginas
...observations that agree with descriptions, are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...observations that agree with descriptions, are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
 | 1804 - 412 páginas
...with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have BO great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader fin'ds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 páginas
...the observations that agree with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more livelj ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 páginas
...have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than . the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn...painted more to the life in his imagination, by the belp of words, than by an actual survey of the scene which they describe. In this case, the poet seems... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 páginas
...observations that agree with descriptions, are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 páginas
...observations that agree with descriptions, are equally applicable to painting and statuarv. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 páginas
...the observations that agree with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
 | 1824 - 268 páginas
...the observations that agree with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively idejis than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and... | |
 | 1832 - 280 páginas
...observations that agree with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. ^ Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
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The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life in his imagination, by the help of words, than by an actual survey of the scene which they describe. In this case, the poet seems to get the better of nature... 
