 A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in 'a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Página 61por Hugh Blair - 1801Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1729 - 320 páginas
...immediately alfenttothe Beauty of an Objeft, withoutenquiring into the particular CaufesandOccafioTisof it. A Man of a Polite Imagination is let into a great many Pleafures, that the Vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converfe with a Pifture, and find an... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 páginas
...kinds of emphafis. Mr. Addifon, in one of his Spectators, fhowing the advantages of good ufte, fays, A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleafures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving ; he can converfe with a piclure, and find an... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1802 - 328 páginas
...conclufion particular and occafions are fuperfluous words ; aud_thu pronoun it is in fome meafure ambiguous. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pieafures, that the 'vulgar are not capable of receiving. The term polite is oftener applied to manners,... | |
 | 1803 - 376 páginas
...assent to the beauty of an object, without enquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
 | 1804 - 412 páginas
...assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. lie can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...assent to the beauty of an object, without enquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 páginas
...conclusion, particular and occasiens are superfluous words ; and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures that the -vulgar are not capable of receiving. The term fiolite is oftener applied to manners, than to die imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 páginas
...of emphasis. Mr. Addison, in one of his Spectators, showing the advantages of good taste, says — A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving ; he can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. Spectator, No. 411.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1813 - 296 páginas
...oeeasions are superfluous words; and the pronoun ;' is ia some measure ambiguous. *. A man of a^polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are nut eapable of reeeiving." The term polite is oftner applied to manners than to the imagination. The... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 páginas
...how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that A man of a refined ima^inntion is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find au agreeable companion in a statue He meets with a secret... | |
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