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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... "
An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric - Page 111
by Hugh Blair - 1837 - 230 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 6

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...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

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...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

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...
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The Port Folio, Volume 2

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...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

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...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that...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...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that...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...
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1804 - 412 pages
...we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that...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...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick

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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The British Essayists, Volume 12

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vUion that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by...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...
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