 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - Počet stránok 330
...a perpetual dictatorship. — Steele. (4) He meets with a secret refreshment in a descriptions *nd often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect...fields and meadows than another does in the possession. — Addison. (6) Ere he thoroughly recovered the shock a wild crj arose. — Charles Beade. (7) Had... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - Počet stránok 334
...beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration', 1 and a man with a vivid imagination 'often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect...meadows, than another does in the possession.' * It is strange to find Addison practically limiting the pleasures of the imagination to the faculty of... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - Počet stránok 322
...beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration', ' and a man with a vivid imagination 'often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect...meadows, than another does in the possession.' * It is strange to find Addison practically limiting the pleasures of the imagination to the faculty of... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1928 - Počet stránok 394
...— " A beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration. A man of polite imagination often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the posseseion." (Spectator, No. 411.) In the Spectator No. 412, he shows a keen sense of the pleasures... | |
 | 1869 - Počet stránok 730
...heavy ; yet even then, we can often do better. Says Addison, " A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving." Express it thus, " a great many pleasures not open to the vulgar,"- and you substitute terseness for... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - Počet stránok 490
...beautiful." 8 The general effect of these pleasures is refining: "A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving." A more specialized effect is felt by the imaginative writer: 7 In recent times there has been controversy... | |
 | David Miller - 1989 - Počet stránok 368
...Joseph Addison in detailing "The Pleasures of Imagination" (1712): "A man of polite imagination . . . meets with a secret refreshment in a description and...possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in everything he sees and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures,... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - 1991 - Počet stránok 828
...Aristotle." \et, like philosophy, it is a contemplative pleasure: A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable...He meets with a secret refreshment in a description [to which June 30 is devoted], and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and... | |
 | Maurice Brown, Diana Korzenik - 1993 - Počet stránok 234
...civilization. The aesthetic purpose of the study of drawing, he claimed, was to permit a person to "converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion in a statue." The aesthetic neither matched conventional school subjects, arithmetic, geography, and so on, nor directly... | |
 | Ann Bermingham, John Brewer - 1995 - Počet stránok 668
...the Eye, and the Scene enters"), but at the same time the "Man of a Polite Imagination is let into a great many Pleasures that the Vulgar are not capable of receiving ... he looks upon the World, as it were, in another Light, and discovers in it a Multitude of Charms, that... | |
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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... 
