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 63by Hugh Blair - 1811 - 838 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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