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. Illustrations of Human Life - Page 84by Robert Plumer Ward - 1837Full view - About this book
| 1729 - 320 pages
...immediately alfenttothe Beauty of an Objeft, withoutenquiring into the particular CaufesandOccafioTisof it. A Man of a Polite Imagination is let into a great many Pleafures, that the Vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converfe with a Pifture, and find an... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...diately acknowledge the beauty of an objeci, " without enquiring into the caufe of that beauty." " A man of a polite imagination is let into a '* great many pleafures, that the vulgar are not tl capable of receiving." Polite is a term more commonly applied... | |
| John Walker - Elocution - 1799 - 438 pages
...kinds of emphafis. Mr. Addifon, in one of his Spectators, fhowing the advantages of good ufte, fays, A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleafures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving ; he can converfe with a piclure, and find an... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 500 pages
...diately acknowledge the beauty of an objecl, " without inquiring into the caufe of that «' beauty." " A man of a polite imagination is let into a "great..., that the vulgar are not " capable of receiving. " Polite is a term more commonly applied to manner or behaviour , than to the mind or imagination.... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 328 pages
...conclufion particular and occafions are fuperfluous words ; aud_thu pronoun it is in fome meafure ambiguous. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pieafures, that the 'vulgar are not capable of receiving. The term polite is oftener applied to manners,... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. lie can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...conclusion, particular and occasiens are superfluous words ; and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures that the -vulgar are not capable of receiving. The term fiolite is oftener applied to manners, than to die imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 362 pages
...assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret i-efreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and... | |
| John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...of emphasis. Mr. Addison, in one of his Spectators, showing the advantages of good taste, says — A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. Spectator, No. 411. We shall find but few readers lay any considerable stress upon the word picture,... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...oeeasions are superfluous words; and the pronoun ;' is ia some measure ambiguous. *. A man of a^polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are nut eapable of reeeiving." The term polite is oftner applied to manners than to the imagination. The... | |
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