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. Illustrations of Human Life - Página 82por Robert Plumer Ward - 1837Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Hugh Blair - 1801 - 500 páginas
...objecl, " without inquiring into the caufe of that «' beauty." " A man of a polite imagination is let into a "great many pleasures , that the vulgar are not " capable of receiving. " Polite is a term more commonly applied to manner or behaviour , than to the mind or imagination.... | |
| 1803 - 420 páginas
...without 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...greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and VOL. VI. F meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in... | |
| 1804 - 412 páginas
...without 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. lie can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 páginas
...pleasures that the vulgar, £sfc. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable com** panion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in...description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the pros" pect of fields and meadows, than another does in the posses*' sion. It gives him, indeed, a kind... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 páginas
...superfluous words ; and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the -vulgar are not capable of receiving. The term fiolite is oftener applied to manners, than to die imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 páginas
...without 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...agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret i-efreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and... | |
| John Walker - 1810 - 394 páginas
...of his Spectators, showing the advantages of good taste, says — A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are...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 - 1811 - 464 páginas
...the vulgar are *' not capable of receiving," is much better than " pleasures that the vulgar," &c. " He can converse with a picture, and find an " agreeable...of " fields and meadows, than another does in the pos" session. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property " in every thing he sees ; and makes the most... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 páginas
...how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that A man of a refined ima^inntion is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are...receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find au agreeable companion in a statue He meets with a secret refreshnuui in a description, and often feels... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - 266 páginas
...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...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaciion in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the. possession. It gives... | |
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