 inquiring into the particular causes 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 a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets...  The British Essayists: The Spectator - Page 107by Alexander Chalmers - 1802Full view - About this book
 | 1778 - 342 pages
...immediately aifent to the beauty of an objeft, without enquiring into the particular caufes and otcafions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleafure; that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converfe with a picture, and find an... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...diately acknowledge the beauty of an objeci, " without enquiring into the caufe of that beauty." " A man of a polite imagination is let into a '* great many pleafures, that the vulgar are not tl capable of receiving." Polite is a term more commonly applied... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1799 - 438 pages
...kinds of emphafis. Mr. Addifon, in one of his Spectators, fhowing the advantages of good ufte, fays, A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleafures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving; he can converfe with a piclure, and find an... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 500 pages
...diately acknowledge the beauty of an objecl, " without inquiring into the caufe of that «' beauty." " A man of a polite imagination is let into a "great many pleafures, that the vulgar are not " capable of receiving. " Polite is a term more commonly applied... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 328 pages
...particular and occafions are fnperfluous words ; and_the pronoun it is in fome meafure ambigu-. ous. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many ffiafures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving, The term polite is oftener applied to manners,... | |
 | 1803 - 436 pages
...how, with the symmetry of any thing we see, and immediately assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions...meets with a secret refreshment in a description, .and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...symrr any thing we see, and immediately assent to th ty of an object, without enquiring into the pa: causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into many pleasures that the vulgar are not capabli ceiving. He can converse with a picture, and agreeable... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...how, with the symmetry of any thing we see, and immediately assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...immediately acknowledged the beauty of an object, with" out inquiring into the cause of that beauty." " A man of a polite Imagination is let into a great...pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving." Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or behaviour, than to the mind or Imagination. There... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...conclusion, particular and occasiens are superfluous words ; and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures that the -vulgar are not capable of receiving. The term fiolite is oftener applied to manners, than to die imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
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