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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... "
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 63
by Hugh Blair - 1811 - 838 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1729 - 320 pages
...any the like Occafion. We cannot indeed have a fingle Image in the Fancy that did not make its fuft Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding thofe Images,which We have once received, into all the varieties of Picture and Vifion that are moft...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1739 - 332 pages
...We uumot indeed Imvc u finglc Image in the Fancy that did not mnkc its fir 11 \>',ntr.ince tluough the Sight ) but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding tliofe Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vifion that are moft...
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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...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight...to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landskips more beautiful than any that can...
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1804 - 412 pages
...statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight...to the imagination : for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landskips more beautiful than any that can...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight;...to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes more beautiful than any that...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...following instances, the first a solecism in syntax, the second in grammar, will sufficiently prove : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties, &c. &c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c, &c. f " As I wish to be brief on this ungrateful...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...following instances, the first a solecism in syntax, the second in grammar, will sufficiently prove : " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties, &c. &c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c. &c.f" As I wish to be brief on this ungrateful...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...should have been used instead of the possessive ihdr l viz. " and whoie right hand is full of gifts." " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding,...those images which we have once received, into all die varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering and compounding those images...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...and- compounding them into all the varieties 01 picture and vision ;" or, perhaps, better thus : " We have. the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of forming then* into all the varieties of picture and vision.,"' both of the nominative and objective...
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