We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision... The Madras University Calendar - Page lxivby University of Madras - 1873Full view - About this book
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...entrance '* through the fight ; but we have the power of -* retaining, altering, and compounding thofc f images which we have once received, into all the " varieties of picture and vifioi. that are moft *.' agreeable to the imagination ; for, by this fa" culty, a man in a dungeon... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding...vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landskips... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding...vision that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landskips... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding...vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...following instances, the first a solecism in syntax, the second in grammar, will sufficiently prove : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties, &c. &c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c. &c.f" As I wish to be brief on this ungrateful... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...following instances, the first a solecism in syntax, the second in grammar, will sufficiently prove : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties, &c. &c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c, &c. f " As I wish to be brief on this ungrateful... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...should have been used instead of the possessive ihdr l viz. " and whoie right hand is full of gifts." " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding,...those images which we have once received, into all die varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering and compounding those images... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...and- compounding them into all the varieties 01 picture and vision ;" or, perhaps, better thus : " We have. the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of forming then* into all the varieties of picture and vision.,"' both of the nominative and objective... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...all the varieties of picture and vifion." It is very proper to fay, "altering and compounding thofe images which •we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and Tifion ;" but we can with no propriety fay, " retaining them into all the varieties ;" and yet, according... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and...once received, into all the varieties of picture and vUion that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable... | |
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