 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. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often...  Lectures on rhetoric &c - Stran 411avtor: Hugh Blair - 1820Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1729 - 320 strani
...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 - 1793 - 518 strani
...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 - 1799 - 438 strani
...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 - 1801 - 500 strani
...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...receiving. " Polite is a term more commonly applied to manner or behaviour , than to the mind or imagination. There is nothing farther to be obferved on this... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1802 - 416 strani
...the caufe of that beauty." " A man of a polite Imagination is let into a great manr •"plenfures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving." Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or beha• viour, than to the mind or Imagination. There is nothing farther to be obferved on this fentence,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1802 - 328 strani
...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,... | |
 | 1803 - 376 strani
...assent to the beauty of an object, without enquiring 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. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
 | 1804 - 412 strani
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 strani
...assent to the beauty of an object, without enquiring 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. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 strani
...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... | |
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