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
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - Počet stránok 484
...how, with the symmetry of anything we see, and immediately assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular" causes and occasions...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... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1849 - Počet stránok 650
...which the vulgar are not capable of receiving, is much better than pleasures that the vulgar, 4 . c. ' 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 ,ioes in the... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - Počet stránok 468
...to avoid repetition, whieh 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 ef fields and meadows, than another does in the... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1850 - Počet stránok 654
...ivhich 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.... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1850 - Počet stránok 466
...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...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... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - Počet stránok 524
...the king, no, not in thy thought. [That is, not merely inwards or audibly, but even in thy thought."] 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 - 1850 - Počet stránok 460
...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...not capable of receiving." " He can converse with 9 picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description;... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - Počet stránok 292
...public, as Csesar 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. 191. When we place an emphasis on the word "picture," we find it is not only an advantage to the thought,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - Počet stránok 468
...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... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - Počet stránok 468
...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...He meets with a secret refreshment in a description j and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in... | |
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