 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 500 pages
...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 pleasures..., that the vulgar are not " capable of receiving. " Polite is a term more commonly applied to manner or behaviour , than to the mind or imagination.... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...the beauty of an object, without enquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures...an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...the beauty of an object, without enquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures,...an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...the beauty of an object, without 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. lie can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...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 many 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 362 pages
...the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures...an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret i-efreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...emphasis. Mr. Addison, in one of his Spectators, showing the advantages of good taste, says — A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures...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,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1811 - 464 pages
...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 the prospect of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...oeeasions are superfluous words; and the pronoun ;' is ia some measure ambiguous. *. A man of a^polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are nut eapable of reeeiving." The term polite is oftner applied to manners than to the imagination. The... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that A man of a refined ima^inntion is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar...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... | |
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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. 
