 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...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:... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1833 - 374 pages
...becomes animated with a love of nature, nothing is seen tha doee not become an object for curiosity and inquiry. A person under the influence of this...in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in ;i description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the inspect of fields and meadows, than... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 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. We shall find but few persons lay any considerable stress on the word picture in this sentence; but... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...becomes animated with a love of nature, nothing is seen that does not become an object for curiosity and inquiry. A person under the influence of this...and meadows, than another does in the possession. 2. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most rude uncultivated... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 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 uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ;... | |
 | 1836 - 424 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 uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ;... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1837 - 242 pages
...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...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most jude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 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:... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 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...property in everything he sees, and makes the most uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ; so that he looks upon the world, as it were,... | |
 | Abraham Mills, Hugh Blair - 1838 - 372 pages
...preferable to that, in all cases, except where it is necessary to avoid an ungraceful repetition. ' He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...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... | |
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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... 
