 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 320 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 those Images, which we have once te/ ceived, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision that are most agreeable to the Imagination;... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 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 25 and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1907 - 142 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... | |
 | Edward Young - Authorship - 1917 - 150 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 the most agreeable to the imagination; for by this faculty a man in... | |
 | Edward Young - Authorship - 1917 - 140 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 the most agreeable to the imagination; for by this faculty a man in... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...some detail. In #411 perhaps the most central of such accounts is worth a partial second citation: "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... | |
 | Phillis Wheatley - Fiction - 1988 - 386 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... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - Literary Collections - 1995 - 508 pages
...altering and compounding them into all the varieties of picture and vision;' or better perhaps thus: '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. ' - The latter part of the sentence... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...wrote, "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."1 The pleasures of the imagination... | |
 | Iona Italia - English prose literature - 2005 - 272 pages
...and subtile Disquisitions' that characterize the activity of the understanding from the imagination's power of 'retaining, altering and compounding those...which we have once received, into all the varieties of Picture and Vision' (Spectator 411). Johnson, in his Dictionary entry under 'Wit', cites Locke's... | |
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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... 
