 ... he always annexes to the dove ; but, if he pretends to defend the preference he gives to one or the other by endeavouring to prove that this more beautiful form proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler - Page 320by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 366 pages
...rare bird ; and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from fome aflbciation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the dove ; but...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...rare bird ; and he who gives the preference fo the dove, does it from fome afibciation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the dove ; but...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line? or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on as a criterion of form, he will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...rare bird ; and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from fome affociation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the dove ; but...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on as a criterion of form, he will... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...rare bird; and lie who gives the preference to the dove, does it from lome aflbciation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the dove; but...gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direilion of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he (kill fix on as a criterion of... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 pages
...rare bird ; and he who gives . the preference to the dove, does it from fome allbciation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the dove : but...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of hie imagination he (hall fix on as a criterion of form, he will... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 pages
...he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence which he always annexes to the dove ; but if he pretends...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of aline, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence which he always annexes to the dove ; but if he pretends...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of aline, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pages
...rare bird ; and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from fome aflbciation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the dove ; but,...prove that this more beautiful form proceeds from a parti. cular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction' of a line, or whatever other... | |
 | 1803 - 222 pages
...rare bird ; and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the dove ; but...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, er whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1809 - 442 pages
...he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence which he always annexes to the dove; but if he pretends...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will... | |
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