 | Joseph Catafago - 1858 - 368 pages
...let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. (first explanation.) He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. (Second explanation.) He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 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...in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in & description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 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. That is, he can converse not only with intelligent beings like himself, but even with such a dumb,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1862 - 366 pages
...repetition of which in the same sentence. IXAMFLE. secret refreshment in a description, and often feela a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property m every thing be sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts f nature administer to his pleasures... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1863 - 266 pages
...sufficiency.' A slight amount of contraction does not dispense with the rule : ' A man of polite imagination can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.' But when the sentences are very closely relate 1 to each other, and connected by the conjunctions '... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...gray-headed old sexton, and accompanied him home to get the key of the church. 2. A num of vivid imagination can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion In a etatue. XI hdTe very often lamented, and hinted my sorrow in several speculations, that the art of... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
.... . has certainly done most . . . for the improvement of mankind. 7. A man of a polite imagination can converse with a picture . . . and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 8. This is some fellow Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1870 - 456 pages
...these sentences is imperfect. We may be sure that the writer means that his man of polite imagination feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession of them. But he does not say so. Nor by any rule or usage of the English language are the preposition... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1870 - 454 pages
...these sentences is imperfect. We may be sure that the writer means that his man of polite imagination feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession of them. But he does not say so. Nor by any rule or usage of the English language are the preposition... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
.... . has certainly done most . . . for the improvement of mankind. 7. A man of a polite imagination can converse with a picture . . . and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 8. This is some fellow Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and... | |
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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... 
