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... The advanced grammar of school-grammars - Página 228por C. Duxbury - 1884 - 264 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 páginas
...which the vulgar are not capable of receiving, is much better than pleasures that the vulgar, fyc. ' He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most rude uncultivated... | |
| 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...receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find au agreeable companion in a statue He meets with a secret refreshnuui in a description, and often feels... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - 266 páginas
...to avoid repetition, which is preferable' to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaciion in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the. possession. It gives... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - 300 páginas
...necessary to avoid repetition, which is preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He mee A secret refreshment in a description ; and often feels a greater satisfactisn in the prospect... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 páginas
...meaning, we ought by no means to lay the emphasis upon them. EXAMPLE. 3. A man of a polite imagination, is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. In this sentence an emphasis on the word picture is not only an advantage to the thought, but is in... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1819 - 550 páginas
...vulgar are not capable of receiving, is much better than pleasures that the vulgar, fyc. \ • . > He can converse with a picture and find an agreeable...meets with a secret refreshment in a description ; and ojten feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 páginas
...an object, " without inquiring into the cause of that beauty." DD 4> A man of. a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or behaviour, than to the mind or imagination. There... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1822 - 272 páginas
...instance. He can converse with ap>cturr, and find an agree' ab'e companion in a statue. He meets rvilh a secret refreshment in a description ; and often...and , meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1822 - 164 páginas
...Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or behaviour, than to the mind or imagination. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and, makes the most rude, uncultivated... | |
| 1840 - 520 páginas
...does not become an object of curiosity and inquiry. A person under the influence of this principle, can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated... | |
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