 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...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Стр. 213авторы: Hugh Blair - 1815 - Страниц: 544Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Hugh Blair - 1784 - Страниц: 412
...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... | |
 | 1803 - Страниц: 436
...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1805 - Страниц: 280
...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 - 1808 - Страниц: 330
...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 - Страниц: 362
...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... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - Страниц: 394
...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. Spectator, No. 411. We shall find but few readers lay any considerable stress upon the word picture,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1813 - Страниц: 296
...seeret refreshment in a deseription ; and often 'feels a greater satisfaetion in the prospeet of t!el<ls and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of properly in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uneultivated parts of nature administer to... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - Страниц: 266
...to 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...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaciion in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the. possession. It gives... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - Страниц: 300
...necessary to 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 companion in a statue. He mee A secret refreshment in a description ; and often feels a greater satisfactisn in the prospect... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - Страниц: 448
...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. In this sentence an emphasis on the word picture is not only an advantage to the thought, but is in... | |
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