 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 - Halaman 3061830Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | 1877 - 468 halaman
...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,... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 330 halaman
...a perpetual dictatorship. — Steele. (4) He meets with a secret refreshment in a descriptions *nd often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect...fields and meadows than another does in the possession. — Addison. (6) Ere he thoroughly recovered the shock a wild crj arose. — Charles Beade. (7) Had... | |
 | William Swinton - 1877 - 142 halaman
...statue. (Second illustration) : He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feel? a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession of them. (Third illustration. partly repetitionary): It gives him a kind of property in everything... | |
 | William Swinton - 1877 - 134 halaman
...into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. (First illustration) : He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. (Second illustration) : He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1878 - 522 halaman
...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...fields and meadows than another does in the possession of them. It gives him a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1878 - 528 halaman
...would not distinctly show the main division. [§ 50, Co-ordinative Conjunctions, 1, a, b, o.] ' He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.' — ADDISON. ' The abbot was freed from the authority of the Metropolitan of Canterbury, and [was]... | |
 | William Swinton - 1878 - 394 halaman
...He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. (Second illustration) : He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels n greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession of... | |
 | William Swinton - 1879 - 394 halaman
...into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. (First illustration): He can converse with a picture, and .find an agreeable companion in a statue. (Second illustration): He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 halaman
...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 halaman
...polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He ihcir words loosely and uncertainly, and do not make...clear deductions of words one from another, which properly in everything he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to... | |
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