 | University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1928 - 394 pages
...— " 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... | |
 | John Calhoun Stephens - 1982 - 840 pages
...Pleasures of the Imagination. 1. dry: "paid in hard cash" (OED). 2. "A Man of a Polite Imagination . . . meets with a secret Refreshment in a Description,...Possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of Property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated Parts of Nature administer to his Pleasures:... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - 1991 - 828 pages
...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...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 - 234 pages
...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 - 668 pages
...that the Vulgar are not capable of receiving. [The passivity of the word "receiving" is typical.] He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...Possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of Property in everv thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his Pleasures:... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 pages
...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...in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another dies in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees; and makes... | |
 | Walter Pape, Frederick Burwick - 1995 - 380 pages
...fashionable society" (p. 128). 48 Wordsworth: Guide to the Lakes, p. 148. 49 Ibid., p. 149. 50 Ibid., p. 150. meets with a secret Refreshment in a Description,...Possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of Property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated Parts of Nature administer to his Pleasures:... | |
 | Preben Mortensen - 1997 - 230 pages
...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...Possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of Property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated Parts of Nature administer to his Pleasures:... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - 1998 - 330 pages
...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...and Meadows, than another does in the Possession. It g1ves him, indeed, a kind of Property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated... | |
 | Shelly Errington - 1998 - 348 pages
...makes anything he sees into his symbolic property. "This Man of Polite Imagination," Addison writes, "often feels a greater Satisfaction in the Prospect...indeed, a kind of Property in everything he sees." A ninth-century Buddhist pilgrim at Borobudur would not climb straight up Borobudur to look around... | |
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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 feels... 
