...freedom, and health. Regarding the first of these, Addison remarks that a man of Polite Imagination "often feels a greater Satisfaction in the Prospect...Possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of Property in every thing he sees" (538). 22 The imagined appropriation that Addison calls to our attention here...

...to rise above the concern for property. The notion that the 'Man of Polite Imagination' enjoys more in the 'Prospect of Fields and Meadows, than another does in the Possession' implies an accord with these sentiments. However, it is not clear how the 'Kind of Property' spoken...

...eighteenth-century texts. Addison, for example, had argued that the "Man of Polite Education" could feel "a greater Satisfaction in the Prospect of Fields and Meadows, than another does in the Possession." As Robert W. Jones has pointed out, the satisfaction attributed to this man seems to be based in the...

...It is assumed in Addison's often-cited line from the Spectator, "A Man of a Polite Imagination . . . often feels a greater Satisfaction in the Prospect...and Meadows, than another does in the Possession. ... He looks upon the World, as it were, in another Light" (1712, no. 411). Shaftesbury combined the...

...personal advantage.3 Joseph Addison, for example, writes of "a man of polite imagination" that "He . . . often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession."4 And Francis Hutcheson, who might with some justice be called the father of modern philosophical...

...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. ... It gives him, indeed, a kind of Property in everything he sees, and makes the most tude uncultivated...

...Joseph Addison wrote that they 'are not so gross as those of Sense ... 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...

...signature of genre is more muted. Any "Man of Polite Imagination," Mr. Spectator advises, can meet "with a secret Refreshment in a Description, and often...and Meadows, than another does in the Possession." As long as he possesses his own "Ideas" of the landscape, he acquires real estate with no maintenance:...

...'the pleasures of the Imagination': A Man of Polite Imagination is let into a great many Pleasures He can converse with a Picture, and find an agreeable...Fields and Meadows, than another does in the Possession — [H]e looks upon the World, as it were, in another Light, and discovers in it a Multitude of Charms,...

...polite imagination is led 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, ft gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated...