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 feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives... The Spectator ... - Página 741803Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1869 - 564 páginas
...refined imagination " gives a man a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most ruile, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.' $ 215. Impaitance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning. In remaiking'on the subject of the... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 434 páginas
...most rude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ; so that he looks upon the whole world, as it were, in another light, and discovers...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.' — Addison. In the whole range of English literature, there is, perhaps, no passage more strikingly... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 páginas
...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the 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... | |
| Richard Grant White - 1870 - 454 páginas
...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude and uncultivated parts of Nature administer to his pleasures... | |
| Werrett Wallace Charters - 1912 - 456 páginas
...meadows than another does in the possession of them. It gives him a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated p'arts...nature administer to his pleasures. So that he looks on the world in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal themselves from... | |
| Werrett Wallace Charters - 1912 - 460 páginas
...meadows than another does in the possession of them. It gives him a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts...nature administer to his pleasures. So that he looks on the world in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal themselves from... | |
| Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church - 1913 - 416 páginas
...prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession of them. So that he looks on the world in another light and discovers in it a multitude of...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind". Such was "culture" — the aim of the old education. The student was to be "liberally educated", in... | |
| John Burnet - 1913 - 162 páginas
...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the 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:... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 796 páginas
...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows, than another does in the 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,... | |
| Paul Heyne - 1922 - 208 páginas
...the possession of them." Dritte Erläuterung: "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. Schluss: "So that he looks on the world in another light and discovers in it a multitude of charms... | |
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