 | William Hogarth - 1808 - 346 páginas
...first, and to move successively with it from letter to letter, the whole length of the line: but if the eye stops at any particular letter, A, to observe...swiftness with which it performs this task, enables us to sec considerable spaces with sufficient satisfaction at one sudden view. Hence we shall always suppose... | |
 | Thomas Clerk, William Hogarth - 1812 - 374 páginas
...to move successively with it from p< gs letter to letter, the whole length of-the line : but if the eye stops at any particular letter, A, to observe...one view, as it were, this imaginary ray must course it'to and fro with great celerity. Thus though the eye, strictly speaking, can only pay due attention... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1810 - 198 páginas
...they are fituated on either fide of A, as is exprefs'd in the figure: and when we endeavour to fee all the letters in a line equally perfect at one view, as it were, this imaginary ray muft courfe it to and fro with great celerity. Thus though the eye, ftrictly fpeaking, can only pay... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1998 - 212 páginas
...A, to observe it more than the rest, these other letters will grow more imperfect to the sight . . . and when we endeavour to see all the letters in a line equally perfect at one view, as it were, the imaginary ray must course it to and fro with great celerity. (AB, 43) Hogarth's "ray" — which... | |
 | Jochen Bedenk - 2004 - 264 páginas
...the sight, the farther they are situated on either side of A, as is express'd in the figure; and whcn we endeavour to see all the letters in a line equally perfect at one view, as it were, the imaginary ray must course it to and fro with great celerity.126 Im imaginary ray substituiert der... | |
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... move successively with it from letter to letter, the whole length of the line: but if the eye stops at any particular letter, A, to observe it more than the rest, these other letters will grow more and more imperfect to the sight, the farther they... 