 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...and occasions 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 polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...we ought hy no means to lay the emphasis upon them. EXAMPLE. 3. A man of a polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving ; he can converse with ^picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. In this sentence an emphasis on the word picture... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...and occasions 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 polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of tJial instead of... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, and Poverty's unconquerable bar! 4. A man of cultinntr.il mind, can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 5. Little men— triumph over the errors of great ones, as an owl—rejoices at an eclipse of the sun.... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...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 refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...nature. [That is, not only when he is absent from beautiful scenes, but even in a dungeon.'} A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. [That is, he can converse even with a picture, and find an agreeable companion even in a statue, which... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...captives," and put it into their own coffers, instead of giving it to the public, as Caesar had done. 190. A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures, which the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...repetition, which is preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. " 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...nature. [That is, not only when he is absent from beautiful scenes, but even in a dungeon.] A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. [That is, he can converse even with a picture, and find an agreeable companion even in a statue, which... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...and occasions 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 polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
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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. 
