 | Eva T. H. Brann - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...those of sense, nor so refined as those of the understanding," yet fully as "transporting" as those: "A description in Homer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Aristotle." \et, like philosophy, it is a contemplative pleasure: A man of polite imagination is let into a great... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 224
...that Addison drew on Locke's theory of cognition to emphasize the extreme ease with which they could be acquired: It is but opening the Eye, and the Scene enters. The Colours paint themselves on the Fancy, with very little Attention of Thought or Application of Mind in the Beholder.... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...with those of the Understanding, are no less great and transporting.1 A beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration; and a description...charmed more readers than a chapter in Aristotle. This is a good illustration of what he had been asserting, and is expressed with that happy and elegant... | |
 | Stephanie Ross - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...(537). Addison maintains that such pleasures are more readily available than those of the understanding: It is but opening the eye, and the Scene enters. The Colours paint themselves on the Fancy, with very little Attention of Thought or Application of Mind in the Beholder.... | |
 | Robin Dix - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...Imagination's pleasures are to be preferred to those of the understanding because "more obvious, and more easie to be acquired. It is but opening the Eye, and the Scene enters. The Colours paint themselves on the Fancy, with very little Attention of Thought or Application of Mind in the Beholder"... | |
 | Alexandra Wettlaufer - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 316
..."pictures" are "painted" on the retina and then transported as such to the brain, Addison maintains, "it is but opening the Eye, and the Scene enters. The Colours paint themselves on the Fancy, with very little Attention of Thought or Application of the Mind of the Beholder"... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 1864
..."more preferable," but "those of the Imagination are as great and as transporting as the other. . . . Besides, the Pleasures of the Imagination have this...Understanding, that they are more obvious, and more easie to be acquired." They do not "require such a Bent of Thought," such an extremity of "Labour"... | |
 | Lee Morrissey - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...that may follow on Dryden's recommendation to avoid obscure passages. According to Spectator no. 411, "The pleasures of the imagination have this advantage,...understanding, that they are more obvious, and more easie to be acquired" (3:538). On the one hand, this is an important and positive change in the attitude... | |
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Besides, the pleasures of the imagination have this advantage above those of the understanding, that they are more obvious, and more easy to be acquired: it is but opening the eye, and the scene enters... 
