 The beauty of autumn is accompanied with a similar exercise of thought : the leaves begin then to drop from the trees; the flowers and shrubs, with w-hich the fields were adorned in the summer months, decay; the woods and groves are silent ; the sun himself...  Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste - Page 24by Archibald Alison - 1812 - 434 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1885 - 364 pages
...await its infant beauty, but which almost involuntarily extend themselves to analogies with the hfe of man, and bring before us all those images of hope...the decay of life, of empire, and of nature itself? The beautiful in literature comprises all that raises in the mind an emotion of the gladsome, placid... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...— Dante. Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain. — Thomson. Who is there who, at this season, docs not feel his mind impressed with a sentiment of melancholy...the decay of life, of empire, and of nature itself? — Sir A. Alison. Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods. — Wordsworth. The... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...from the appearances of decay, so naturally leads to the solemn imagination of that inevitable [Vi г which is to bring on alike the decay of life, of empire, and of nature itself? — A. Alison. AVARICE. — Avarice is the vice of declining years. — Bancroft. The lust of avarice... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...from the appearances of decay, so naturally leads to the nolpmn imagination of that inevitable ¡Y.ti which is to bring on alike the decay of life, of empire, and of nature itself? — .1. Alison. AVARICE. — Avarice is the vice of declining years. — Bancroft. . The lust of avarice... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - Language and languages - 1922 - 300 pages
...the dominion of our hearts; autumn impresses the mind "with a sentiment of melancholy," and leads on "to the solemn imagination of that inevitable fate...the decay of life, of empire, and of nature itself"; and so on. On the simple emotions of fear, cheerfulness, elevation, etc., the emotions of beauty and... | |
 | Jonathan Friday - Art - 2004 - 222 pages
...from such appearances of decay, so naturally leads him to the solemn imagination of that inenviable fate, which is to bring on alike the decay of life,...of empire, and of nature itself? In such cases of emotions, every man must have felt, that the character of the scene is no sooner impressed upon his... | |
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