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" Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits... "
The Spectator - Page 65
1729
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The Philosophical Grammar: Being a View of the Present State of Experiment ...

Benjamin Martin - Science - 1735 - 412 pages
...great and violent Labour of the Brain, Deligbt" ful Scenes, whether in Nature, Painting, or Poe" try, have a kindly Influence on the Body, as well " as the Mind ; and not only ferae to clear and *« brighten the Imagination, but are able to difperfe " Grief x The PREFAC E. «'...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1767 - 334 pages
...pleafures of the fancy are more conducive to health, than thofe of the underilanding, which are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too violent a labour of the brain. Delightful fcenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, nave a kindly influence on the body, as well as the...
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Essays on rhetoric: abridged chiefly from dr. Blair's lectures on that science

Hugh Blair - English language - 1784 - 412 pages
...converfafion, to''.b'e admitted, with propriety, into a po.* lifhed compofition. Delightful' fcenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind; anci not only ferve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to difperfe grief and melancholy,...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 5

1786 - 670 pages
...worked out by dint of thinking, and attended wiih too violent a labour of the brain. Delightful fcenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly...mind, and not only ferve to clear and brighten the imaЕТЧЗООП, but are able to difperfe g;'ief and melancholy, and to let the animal fpirits in...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...of the ** fancy are more conducive to health than thofe " of the underftanding, which are worked out by " dint of thinking, and attended with too violent " a labour of the brain." On this fentence nothing occurs deferving of remark, except that " worked out by dint of think" ing,"...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 328 pages
...pleafures of the fancy art more conducive to health than thofe of the undemanding, which are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too 'violent a labour of the brain. Worked out by dint of thinking is a phrafe, which borders too nearly on the flyle of common con verfauon,...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...pleasures of the fancy Arc more conducive to health, than those of the understanding, which are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too violent...influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to...
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1804 - 412 pages
...pleasures of the fancv are more conducive to health than those of the understanding, which are worked out by dint of thinking-, and attended with too violent...influence on the body as well as the mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...those of the understanding, which are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too voilent a labour of the brain. Delightful scenes, whether...influence on the body, as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick

Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
...be admitted into polifhed compofition. Delightful fiefies, -whether in nature, painting, or pcetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as -well as the mind, and not onlyfervt to clear and brighten the imagination but are able to difperfe grief and melancholy, and...
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