 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 - עמוד 411מאת Hugh Blair - 1820תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 דפים
...boundless bounty blessed, And Heaven beholds its image in his breast. Pope. WEALTH OF TASTE. A MAN of 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... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 דפים
...phraseology. By sparing several words the style would have been made more neat and compact. EXAMPLE. 7. "A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving." CRITICISM. " Polite" is a term more commonly applied to manners or behavior than to the mind or imagination.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1845 - 638 דפים
...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...Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or hehaviour, than to the mind or imagination. There is nothing farther to be observed on this sentence,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 דפים
...particular and occasions 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 polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of tJial instead of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 דפים
...particular and occasions 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 polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 דפים
...we ought hy no means to lay the emphasis upon them. EXAMPLE. 3. A man of a polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving ; he can converse with ^picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. In this sentence an emphasis... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 דפים
...compass of nature. [That is, not only when he is absent from beautiful scenes, but even in a dungeon.'} 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. [That is, he can converse... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 דפים
...particular and occasions 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 polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 דפים
...to avoid repetition, which is preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. " 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 דפים
...compass of nature. [That is, not only when he is absent from beautiful scenes, but even in a dungeon.] 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. [That is, he can converse... | |
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