 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...  Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettres - Էջ 140Hugh Blair - 1822 - 144 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Hugh Blair - 1784 - 412 էջ
...greater fa" tisfaElion in the profpeft of fields and mea~ dows, than another does in the pojfeffion* It gives him, indeed, a kind of property 'in every thing he fees ; and makes the moji fv.de uncultivated parts of nature adminijler to his pleafures : So that... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1793 - 518 էջ
...greater fatisfaflion in the " proipeft of fields and meadows, than another " does in the poflellion. It gives him, indeed, a " kind of property in every thing he fees ; and " makes the moft rude, uncultivated parts of nar " ture adminifter to his pleafures : ib... | |
 | 1803 - 376 էջ
...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...thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world, as ii were in another... | |
 | 1803 - 436 էջ
...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...greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and VOL. VI. F meadows, than another does in the possession•. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 էջ
...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...thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another... | |
 | 1804 - 412 էջ
...polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. lie can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1805 - 280 էջ
...a greater fatisfacJion in the profpecj of fields and meadows, than another does in the poffefftttn. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he fees ; and makes the mojl rude uncultivated farts of nature admintfler /? his pleafure : fo that he... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 էջ
...pleasures that the vulgar, £sfc. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable com** panion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in...description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the pros" pect of fields and meadows, than another does in the posses*' sion. It gives him, indeed, a kind... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 էջ
...so in the present instance. • ,. He can converse -with a picture, and find an agreeable campanion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in...prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possesfhn. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in •very thing he sees ; and makes the most rude... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 էջ
...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 i-efreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and... | |
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