 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...  Time's Telescope - Page 3061830Full view - About this book
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1827 - 398 pages
...nothing is seen that does not become an object for curiosity 272 THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. and inquiry. A person under the influence of this...possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in everything he sees ; and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1831 - 544 pages
...polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. 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 of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1831 - 284 pages
...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 wit/ia secret refreshment in a description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1832 - 242 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...It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every tiling he sees; and .makes the most rude, uncultivated part&of nature administer to his pleasures:... | |
 | Spectator - 1832 - 280 pages
...polite imagination is letinto a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...prospect of fields and meadows than another does in tl\e possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and "makes the most... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 610 pages
...that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agrceable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment...description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows than another does in thc possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 622 pages
...polite imagination is led 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 ref reshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...polite imagination is led 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. in this sentence an emphasis on the word picture is not only an advantage to the thought, but is in... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Civilization - 1833 - 370 pages
...the mind 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...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... | |
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