 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - English essays - 1864 - 344 pages
...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...which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by this faculty a man in a dungeon... | |
 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1866 - 366 pages
...ought to give more attention to his business. The reward has already or will hereafter be given to him. We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have received, into all the varieties of picture and vision. — Addison. Frequently, a sentence has two... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 pages
...life with the bloodthirsty ; in whose hands is wickedness, and their right hand is full of gifts. 5. We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision. 6. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1870 - 454 pages
...to refer, not to the faculties, but to the words which are their names. Again he says, — " — but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination." Did Addison mean that we have the... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1870 - 456 pages
...to refer, not to the faculties, but to the words which are their names. Again he says, — " — but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination." Did Addison mean that we have the... | |
 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1872 - 368 pages
...glee more attention to his business. The reward has already or will hereafter be given to him. AVe have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we ha,ve received, into all the varieties of picture and vision. — Addison. Frequently, a sentence has two... | |
 | University of Madras - 1873 - 436 pages
...final cause of such pleasures. VII. Criticise the language of the following passages : — (1.) " But we have the power of retaining, altering and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination." (2.) " The last are more preferable... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1875 - 458 pages
...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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagin Ation ; for, by this faculty, a man in... | |
 | R. T. Kaufmann - 1877 - 120 pages
...single image in the fancy which did not first make its appearance through the sight ; but remember that we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of forming them into all the varieties of picture and vision most agreeable to the imagination... | |
 | M. J. Loftie - Manners and customs - 1879 - 302 pages
...dejectedly at an exercise in syntax^ and vainly trying to discover the mistake in such a sentence as, " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision." Poor child ! what with heat and the indolence of mind which has been allowed... | |
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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... 
