 | 1803 - 376 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1803 - 420 sivua
...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 in... | |
 | 1803 - 436 sivua
...in a description, .and often feels a 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 in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures... | |
 | 1804 - 412 sivua
...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...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 - 1804 - 578 sivua
...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 sivua
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 sivua
...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 - 394 sivua
...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,... | |
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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... 
