 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 - الصفحة 411بواسطة Hugh Blair - 1820عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...immediately " acknowledge the beauty of an object, without " inquiring into the cause of that beauty." " A man of a polite imagination is let into a " great...pleasures that the vulgar are not " capable of receiving." 4 Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or behaviour, than to the mind or imagination.... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...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. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...approbation. 't '"A man of polite imagination,' the author of the Spectator, very justly remarks, ' 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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...questions of this nature, such sentiments as the following. " 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 a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...conclusion, 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 many vleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. The term polite is oftener applied to manners,... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...superfluous words ; and the pronoun it, is, in some measure, ambiguous, its reference not being clear. ' A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...the vulgar are not capable of receiving.' Polite, is perhaps, applied with more propriety to manners, than to the mind or imagination. There is nothing... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...we ought by 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 a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. in this sentence an... | |
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is letinto 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...which the vulgar are not capable of receiving, is much better than pleasures that the vulgar, #c. ' 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... | |
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