| 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...and occasions of it. 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...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...occasions of it. 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...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the... | |
| 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. lie 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 a greater satisfaction in the... | |
| John Walker - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...good taste, says — 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...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. Spectator, No. 411. We shall find but few readers lay any considerable stress upon the word picture,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...and occasions of it. 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...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret i-efreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...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 companion in a statue. He meets " with a secret refreshment in a description ; and *' often feels a greater satisfaction in... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...any pleasures that A man of a refined ima^inntion is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find au agreeable companion in a statue He meets with a secret refreshnuui in a description, and often feels... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...to 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 companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaciion in the... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...and occasions of it. A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...them. EXAMPLE. 3. 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...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. In this sentence an emphasis on the word picture is not only an advantage to the thought, but is in... | |
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