 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
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1880 - 492 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... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - English poetry - 1896 - 328 pages
...prospect," he says, "delights the soul as much as a demonstration." "A man of polite imagination often feeJs a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession."2 We note, too, his pleasure in wide views,3 in sunset,* and in spring.5 He also deprecated... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 408 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 everything 1 The MS. Note-Book already mentioned (see No. 170) has lost several of the first leaves,... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 320 pages
...Picture, and find an agreeable Companion Companion in a Statue, He meets with a secret Refresh/ ment in a Description, and often feels a greater Satisfaction...Property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude un/ cultivated Parts of Nature administer to his Pleasures i So that he looks upon the World, as it... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American literature - 1898 - 910 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... | |
 | Education - 1900 - 612 pages
...refined 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...fields and meadows than another does in the possession of them. It gives him a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated... | |
 | Olaf Morgan Norlie - Literature - 1901 - 56 pages
...vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture and find agreeable companionship in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in...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... | |
 | George W. Rine - English language - 1902 - 290 pages
...Caesar was dead, the senators were dispersed, all Rome was in confusion. A man of polite imagination can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, but wise men use them. Wind puffs up empty bladders,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 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...a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a descrip5 tion, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - Moral education - 1906 - 230 pages
...many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with. a picture, and And an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with...prospect of fields and meadows than another does in their possession. It gives him Indeed a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most... | |
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