 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...preferable to that, in all cases, except where it is necessary to avoid an ungraceful repetition. ' He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1838 - 280 pages
...preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. He can converse with a picture, andjind an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with...often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of Jields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 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...description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind... | |
 | John Lindsay (fellow of Dulwich coll.) - 1842 - 96 pages
...objects expressed ; as, " The man of taste enjoys many pleasures of which others are incapable. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue." If the foregoing sentence be paraphrased, the statement implied or understood will be manifest. He... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1849 - 650 pages
...which the vulgar are not capable of receiving, is much better than pleasures that the vulgar, 4.c. ' He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another ,ioes in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and makes... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 466 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...and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature admimster to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...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 companion in a statue. 191. When we place an emphasis on the word "picture," we find it is not only an advantage to the thought,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
