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The Spectator ... - Page 74
1803
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...refreshment in a description; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, iu another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal them selves from the generality...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...refreshment in a description j and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature admmister to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1852 - 564 pages
...some remarks to this effect, that a refined imagination " gives a man a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts...charms that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.11 $ 215. Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning. In remarking on the subject...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession. It gives...sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts f nature administer to his pleasures ; so that he looks pon the world, as it were, in another light,...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an ..., Volumes 7-8

English essays - 1853 - 552 pages
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the ..., Volumes 7-8

Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession. It gives...in it a multitude of charms that conceal themselves Irom the generality of mankind, tn v, ei;?are'lndeed, but very few wholcnowhow 'UJe tnd innocent, or...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...refreshment in a deseription," and often feels a greater satisfaetion in the prospeet of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...looks upon the world, as it were in another light, and diseovers in it a multitude of charms, that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. There...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - English language - 1854 - 1314 pages
...in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, i mice' I, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature,administer to his pleasures: so that ha looks upon the world, as it were, in another light,...
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The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ...

1854 - 474 pages
...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the 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...
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Elements of mental philosophy

Thomas Cogswell Upham, 1799-1872 - 1856 - 566 pages
...refined imagination " gives a man a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most ruile, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.' $ 215. Impjitance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning. In remaiking on the subject of the...
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