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" 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... "
The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the ... - Página 196
por Spectator The - 1853
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1818 - 266 páginas
...to avoid repetition, which is preferable' to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaciion in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the. possession. It gives...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1818 - 300 páginas
...necessary to avoid repetition, which is preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He mee A secret refreshment in a description ; and often feels a greater satisfactisn in the prospect...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 páginas
...ought by no means to lay the emphasis upon them. EXAMPLE. 3. A man of a polite imagination, is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. In this sentence an emphasis on the word picture is not only an advantage to the thought, but is in...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volumen1

Hugh Blair - 1819 - 550 páginas
...vulgar are not capable of receiving, is much better than pleasures that the vulgar, fyc. \ • . > He can converse with a picture and find an agreeable...meets with a secret refreshment in a description ; and ojten feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the...
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Lectures on rhetoric &c

Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 páginas
...without inquiring into the cause of that beauty." DD 4> A man of. a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or behaviour, than to the mind or imagination. There...
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THE KEY TO THE EXERCISES FOR THE ILLUSTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE RULES ...

W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 páginas
...man of polished imagination enjoys many and various pleasures, of which the uneducated are incapable. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He finds secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the. prospect...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick

Hugh Blair - 1822 - 320 páginas
...words, and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous, J} man of a polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. The term polite is ofienr.r applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of that instead of...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes9-10

British essayists - 1823 - 806 páginas
...inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volumen2

Hugh Blair - 1823 - 468 páginas
...the vulgar are " not capable of receiving," is much better than " pleasures that the vulgar," &c. " He can converse with a picture, and find an " agreeable...the " possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of pro" perty in every thing he sees; and makes the " most rude uncultivated parts of nature adminis"...
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Somerset House Gazette and Literary Museum, Or, Weekly Miscellany of Fine ...

1824 - 406 páginas
...'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...in the prospect of fields and meadows than another docs in the possession of them ; it gives him a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes...
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