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
| Hugh Blair - 1809 - Počet stránok 462
...immediately acknowledge the " beauty of an objecl, without inquiring into the " caufe of that beauty." A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleafures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners... | |
| John Walker - 1810 - Počet stránok 394
...kinds 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...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. Spectator, No. 411. We shall find but few readers lay any considerable stress upon the word picture,... | |
| John Walker - 1810 - Počet stránok 402
...emphasis. Mr. Addison, in one of his Spectators, showing the advantages of good taste, says A roan of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. Spectator, No. 411. We shall find but few readers lay any considerable stress upon the word picture,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1813 - Počet stránok 296
...;' is ia some measure ambiguous. Critieal Kxamination of Mr. Addiion's Style. *. A man of a^polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are nut eapable of reeeiving." "He ean eonverse with a pieture, and find an agreeable eompanion in a statue.... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - Počet stránok 214
...■with the symmetry of any thing we see, and immediately assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a refined imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1817 - Počet stránok 516
...how, with the symmetry of any thing we fee, and immediately assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions...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 - 1818 - Počet stránok 266
...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" 104 CRITICAL EXAMINATION The term polite is oftener applied to manners than to the imagination. The... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - Počet stránok 300
...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... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1818 - Počet stránok 216
...who know how to be idle, and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that E-3 A man of a refined imagination is let into a great' many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable ot receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - Počet stránok 448
...them an affected and fanciful 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...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... | |
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