...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...description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind...

...great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving." Erste Erläuterung hierzu: "He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue." Zweite Erläuterung: "He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater...

...imagination (le pâtre de Shaftesbury, semble témoigner d'une plus profonde democratisation des idées!) often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the posseasion. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees*... — Pour toutes ces...

...often feels a greater satisfaction in thé prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in thé possession It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he seesc... — Pour toutes ces raisons nous ne pouvons que nous opposer avec force à l'assertion de...

...beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration', 1 and a man with a vivid imagination 'often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect...meadows, than another does in the possession.' * It is strange to find Addison practically limiting the pleasures of the imagination to the faculty of...

...beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration', ' and a man with a vivid imagination 'often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect...meadows, than another does in the possession.' * It is strange to find Addison practically limiting the pleasures of the imagination to the faculty of...

...— " A beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration. A man of polite imagination often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the posseseion." (Spectator, No. 411.) In the Spectator No. 412, he shows a keen sense of the pleasures...

...Joseph Addison in detailing "The Pleasures of Imagination" (1712): "A man of polite imagination . . . meets with a secret refreshment in a description and...possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in everything he sees and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures,...

...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...He meets with a secret refreshment in a description [to which June 30 is devoted], and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and...

...civilization. The aesthetic purpose of the study of drawing, he claimed, was to permit a person to "converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion in a statue." The aesthetic neither matched conventional school subjects, arithmetic, geography, and so on, nor directly...