 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
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
.... . has certainly done most . . . for the improvement of mankind. 7. A man of a polite imagination can converse with a picture . . . and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 8. This is some fellow Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 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. He1 meets with a secret refreshment in a description,* and often feels a greater satisfaction in the... | |
 | James McCrie - Self-culture - 1871 - 652 pages
...much labour from them. The man who has a refined imagination, multiplies greatly his satisfaction. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...secret refreshment in a description, and often feels greater delight in the prospect of fields and meadows than the possessors of them may enjoy. Statuary,... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1871 - 456 pages
...paragraph makes the following assertions in regard to what is called a man "of polite imagination:"— " He meets with a secret refreshment in a description,...greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and 72 WORDS AND THEIR USES. meadows than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1872 - 360 pages
...antecedents, or wish to avoid the ungrateful repetition of which in the same sentence. EXAMPLE. 8. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property m every thing he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts f nature administer to his pleasures;... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1886 - 490 pages
..." of polite imagination : " — " He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and 3 lit n feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields...possession. It gives him, Indeed, a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude and uncultivated parts of Nature administer to his pleasures;... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1872 - 250 pages
...sufficiency.' A slight amount of contraction does not dispense with the rule : ' A man of polite imagination can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.' But when the sentences are very closely related to each other, and connected by the conjunctions '... | |
 | W V. Yates - 1873 - 160 pages
...imagination is led into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving; for he can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.' 4 ' He would not take the crown ; Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.' 5. ' Although the oppressive... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures lhat the vulgar are not cnpable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of properly in everything he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1877 - 300 pages
...language of Addison, " 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;... | |
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