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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... "
The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ... - Page 228
by Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 318 pages
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The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of ...

Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 pages
...(cf. Shaftesbury's description of the "vulgar" as "gentlemen"): "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:...
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Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing ...

Paula R. Backscheider - 2005 - 556 pages
...consolidated the attitude into a famous assertion in Spectator number 411: "A man of Polite Imagination . . . meets with a secret Refreshment in a Description,...Possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of Property in every thing he sees" (Bond, Spectator, 3:538 [2 1 June 1712]). Dowling quotes Mark Akenside: "What'er...
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The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750–1815

David Marshall - 2005 - 284 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 Companion in a Statue. ... So that he looks upon the World, as it were, in another Light, and discovers in it a Multitude...
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The Literary Career of Mark Akenside: Including an Edition of His Non ...

Robin Dix - 2006 - 426 pages
...sources. Addison, in The Spectator 41 1, for instance, notes that "A Man of a Polite Imagination . . . often feels a greater Satisfaction in the Prospect of Fields and Meadows, than another does in the Possession.""7 More interesting, in the light of the recent tendency among commentators to emphasize...
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Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth ...

Erik Bond - 2007 - 306 pages
...witness Boswell imagining himself to be Addison's elect reader, the "man of Polite Imagination" who: 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:...
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The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English ...

Lee Morrissey - 2008 - 264 pages
...polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. ... It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasure" (Spectator no. 411, 3:538). Implicit...
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A New Handbook of Literary Terms

David Mikics - 2008 - 364 pages
...animals in it, rather than merely look at it appreciatively). "A man of a polite imagination . . . can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue," Addison suavely writes, endowing cultivated seeing with a refined capacity for dialogue. For Addison,...
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Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English ...

Evan Gottlieb - 2007 - 282 pages
...polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. ... It gives him indeed a kind of property in everything he sees ... so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light and discovers in it a multitude of...
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Art in Context: Understanding Aesthetic Value

David E. W. Fenner - 2008 - 368 pages
...Polite Imagination is let into a great many Pleasures, that the Vulgar are not capable of receiving. ... He meets with a secret Refreshment in a Description,...and Meadows, than another does in the Possession. ... So that he looks upon the World, as it were, in another Light, and discovers in it a Multitude...
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