 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
 | David Irving - 1828 - Počet stránok 440
...scenes and landskips more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature. * * * A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving, lie can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - Počet stránok 648
...immediately acknowledge the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the cause of that beauty.' •A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...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.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - Počet stránok 658
...immediately acknowledge the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the cause of that beauty.' 'A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...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 - 1829 - Počet stránok 656
...immediately acknowledge the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the cause of that beauty.' 'A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...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... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - Počet stránok 350
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - Počet stránok 544
...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...meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows than another does in the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - Počet stránok 284
...conclusion, 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 many vleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. The term polite is oftener applied to manners,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1832 - Počet stránok 242
...to avoid repetition, which is preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. " 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.... | |
 | Instructive gleanings - 1832 - Počet stránok 206
...mutually assist each other. PLEASURE AFFORDED (AS DESCRIBED BY ADDISON). Dagley. FOR thus a man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - Počet stránok 428
...ought by no me¿ns 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...can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable coinpanioss in a statue. - In thia sentence an emphasis on the word picture is not only an advan. tage... | |
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