 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 are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets...  The British Essayists: The Spectator - Strana 107podľa Alexander Chalmers - 1802Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - Počet stránok 442
...compass of nature. [That is, not only when he is absent from beautiful scenes, but even in a dungeon.] A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. [That is, he can converse even with a picture, and find an agreeable companion even in a statue, which... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - Počet stránok 472
...particular and occasions 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 polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - Počet stránok 512
...particular and occasions 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 polite is oftener applied to manners, thnn to the imagination. The use of mat instead of which,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - Počet stránok 548
...thought as is nenessary to our more serious employments, nor at A man of a polite imagination is letinto a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable...meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession.... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - Počet stránok 300
...public, as Caesar had done. 190. A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures, which the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. When we place an emphasis on the word "picture," we find it is not only an advantage to the thought,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1854 - Počet stránok 1314
...which the vulgar are not capable of receiving, is much better than pleasures that the vulgar, SfC. ' A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows,than another does in the possession.... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1854 - Počet stránok 128
...Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. 4. A man of polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving; for he can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 6. Who noble ends... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - Počet stránok 710
...61, ed. in 4to.—G. of any thing we see, and immediately assent to the beauty of an objeet, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of golite imagination is let into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1887 - Počet stránok 134
...are exemplified in the following from Addison and Macaulay: I. FROM ADDISON. (The theme): A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. (First illustration) : He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - Počet stránok 720
...1. (Baylon, Translator.) IMAGINATION —gee Curiosity, Opinion, Poetry, Reading, Science, Solitude. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession.... | |
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