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
| Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 páginas
...of his Spectators (411), shewing the advantages of a good taste, says, A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. We shall find but few persons lay any considerable stress on the word picture in this sentence; but... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - 1833 - 370 páginas
...doee not become an object for curiosity and inquiry. A person under the influence of this principle can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in ;i description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the inspect of fields and meadows, than... | |
| Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 páginas
...does not become an object for 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. 2. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most rude uncultivated... | |
| Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 páginas
...object, without enquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of 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 uncultivated parts... | |
| 1836 - 424 páginas
...object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of 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 uncultivated parts... | |
| David Irving - 1836 - 432 páginas
...beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature. * * * 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... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 376 páginas
...him, even longo intervatto) that applies most exactly to my purpose. '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 everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 páginas
...without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. « 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... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 386 páginas
...even longo intervallo) that applies'most exactly to my purpose. • A man of a polite imagination ia let into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are...and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1837 - 242 páginas
...superfluous words ; and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous. " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving." The term polite is oftener applied to manners, than in the imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
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