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Date: Monday, June 23, 1712
"The Mind of Man naturally hates every thing that looks like a Restraint upon it, and is apt to fancy it self under a sort of Confinement, when the Sight is pent up in a narrow Compass, and shortned on every side by the Neighbourhood of Walls or Mountains."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Monday, June 23, 1712
"But there is nothing that makes its Way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret Satisfaction and Complacency through the Imagination, and gives a Finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)