 | Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 366 pages
...being a more 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...gradation of 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... | |
 | 1787 - 526 pages
...being a more 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...line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he (kill fix on as a criterion of form; he will he continually contradifting himfelf, and find at laft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...being 3. more 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...gradation of 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...being a more 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...gradation of 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 pages
...rare bird -, and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from fome aflbciation of idea* pf innocence that he always annexes to the dove ; but...gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a Jine, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on as a criterion of... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 pages
...being a more 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...gradation of 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... | |
 | 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...gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of aline, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of... | |
 | 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...gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of aline, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 430 pages
...more a more 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...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 - 220 pages
...being a more 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...gradation of 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... | |
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... 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... 
