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... NL orphan barcodes on file at ReCAP - Seite 1791804Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 330 Seiten
...a perpetual dictatorship. — Steele. (4) He meets with a secret refreshment in a descriptions *nd often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect...fields and meadows than another does in the possession. — Addison. (6) Ere he thoroughly recovered the shock a wild crj arose. — Charles Beade. (7) Had... | |
| James Murgeon Flagg - 1916 - 234 Seiten
...polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vuglar are not capable of receiving ; he can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion in a statue. Having expressed my views upon this subject I will, without retrospection, continue to travel : 1 Like... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 796 Seiten
...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...description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind... | |
| Paul Heyne - 1922 - 208 Seiten
...great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving." Erste Erläuterung hierzu: "He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue." Zweite Erläuterung: "He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater... | |
| Władysław Folkierski - 1925 - 620 Seiten
...imagination (le pâtre de Shaftesbury, semble témoigner d'une plus profonde democratisation des idées!) often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the posseasion. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees*... — Pour toutes ces... | |
| Władysław Folkierski - 1925 - 620 Seiten
...often feels a greater satisfaction in thé prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in thé possession It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he seesc... — Pour toutes ces raisons nous ne pouvons que nous opposer avec force à l'assertion de... | |
| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 Seiten
...beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration', 1 and a man with a vivid imagination 'often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect...meadows, than another does in the possession.' * It is strange to find Addison practically limiting the pleasures of the imagination to the faculty of... | |
| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 Seiten
...beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration', ' and a man with a vivid imagination 'often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect...meadows, than another does in the possession.' * It is strange to find Addison practically limiting the pleasures of the imagination to the faculty of... | |
| University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1928 - 394 Seiten
...— " A beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration. A man of polite imagination often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the posseseion." (Spectator, No. 411.) In the Spectator No. 412, he shows a keen sense of the pleasures... | |
| David Miller - 1989 - 368 Seiten
...Joseph Addison in detailing "The Pleasures of Imagination" (1712): "A man of polite imagination . . . meets with a secret refreshment in a description and...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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