 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...becomes animated with a love of nature, nothing is seen that does not become an object of curiosity and inquiry. A person under the influence of this...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures... | |
 | 1840 - 520 pages
...becomes animated with a love of nature, nothing is seen that does not become an object of curiosity and inquiry. A person under the influence of this...possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated part of nature administer to his pleasures... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or behaviour, than to the mind or imagination. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and, makes the most rude, uncultivated part? of nature administer to his pleasures... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 320 pages
...repetition, which is preferable to that,. and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. He can comer st with a. picture, .and find an agreeable companion...secret refreshment in. a description ; and often' f$els a greater satisfaction in the prospect, of fieldsand mtadows, than another doet in the possession..... | |
 | W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 pages
...of polished imagination enjoys many and various pleasures, of which the uneducated are incapable. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He finds secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the. prospect... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 320 pages
...avoid repetition, which is preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees; and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures:... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 468 pages
...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...the " possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of pro" perty in every thing he sees; and makes the " most rude uncultivated parts of nature adminis"... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 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 every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures:... | |
 | Art - 1824 - 406 pages
...justly remarks, ' 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...in the prospect of fields and meadows than another docs in the possession of them ; it gives him a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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 every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures... | |
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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. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels... 
