 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...  Time's Telescope - Page 3061830Full view - About this book
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...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. We shall find but few persons lay any considerable stress on the word picture in this sentence; but... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...the mind becomes animated with a love of nature, nothing is seen that does not become an object for curiosity and inquiry. A person under the influence...and meadows, than another does in the possession. 2. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most rude uncultivated... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...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...property in every thing he sees, and makes the most uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ; so that he looks upon the world, as it were,... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...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...property in every thing he sees, and makes the most uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ; so that he looks upon the world, as it were,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 pages
...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...property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most jude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world, as... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 376 pages
...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 everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature, administer to his pleasures... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...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 everything he sees, and makes the most uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ; so... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...preferable to that, in all cases, except where it is necessary to avoid an ungraceful repetition. ' 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1838 - 280 pages
...preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. He can converse with a picture, andjind an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with...often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of Jields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in... | |
 | American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...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... | |
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