 | 1729 - 320 pages
...thofe Images,which We have once received, into all the varieties of Picture and Vifion that are moft agreeable to the Imagination; for by this Faculty a Man in a Dungeon is capable of entertaining himfelf with Scenes and Landskips more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole Compafs of... | |
 | 1767 - 334 pages
...thole images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of pifture and vifion that are moil agreeable to the imagination : for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himfelf with fcenes and landfkips more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compafs of... | |
 | 1778 - 342 pages
...received, into all the varieties of pictnre and vifion that are mcft agreeable to tke imagination: fer by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himfelf with fcenes and landfldps more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compafs of... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...still more evident from another example : " By the faculty of a lively and picturesque imagination, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself...more beautiful) than any that can be found in the wliole compass of nature." Spectator, No. 411. If we read this passage without that emphasis which... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 416 pages
...received, into all the varie" ties of picture and vifion that are moft agreeable to the imag" ination ; for by this faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of " entertaining himfelf with fcenes and landscapes more beauti" ful than any that can be found in the whole compafs... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 328 pages
...received, into all the varieties of piSure and infion that are m'iji agreeable to the imagination j for, by this faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertain;ng kimfelf mith fcenes znd landfcapes wore beautiful than any that can b: found m the whok... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and...is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landskips more beautiful than any that can be found-in the whole compass of nature. There are few words... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and...that can be found in the whole compass of nature. There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and...is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landskips more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature. There are few words... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
...received, Into all the varieties ff piFlitre and vifwn, that are moft agreeable to the imagination s for, by this faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himfelf -with fcenes and landfcapts more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compafs... | |
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We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision... 
