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
| Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 páginas
...272 THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 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... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 páginas
...questions of this nature, such sentiments as the following. " A man of a polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not...description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 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 meets wit/ia secret refreshment in a description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1832 - 242 páginas
...preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar...fields and meadows than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every tiling he sees; and .makes the most rude, uncultivated... | |
| 1832 - 280 páginas
...inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is letinto a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable...prospect of fields and meadows than another does in tl\e possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and "makes the most... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 622 páginas
...on questions of this nature, such sentiments as the following. "A man of polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not...agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret ref reshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 páginas
...we ought by no means to lay the emphasis upon them. EXAMPLE. 3. A man of a polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not...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... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 610 páginas
...on questions of this nature, such sentiments as the following. " A man of polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not...receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agrceable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels... | |
| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 páginas
...it, is, in some measure, ambiguous, its reference not being clear. ' A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.' Polite, is perhaps, applied with more propriety to manners, than to the mind or imagination. There... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 páginas
...capable of receiving, is much better than pleasures that the vulgar, #c. ' A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar...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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