 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...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:... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...avoid repetition, which is preferable to t/ntt, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...He meets with a secret refreshment in a description j and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in... | |
 | 1851 - 382 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 companion in a statue. He meets with asecret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 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 companion in a statue. [That is, he can converse even with a picture, and find an agreeable companion even in a statue, which... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...antecedents, or wish to avoid the ungrateful repetition of which in the same sentence. EXAMPLE. 8. " 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 f nature administer to his pleasures... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...polite imagination is letinto 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:... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1854 - 504 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 admmister 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... 
