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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 feels... "
The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ... - Page 228
by Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 318 pages
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

1803 - 376 pages
...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...possession. It gives him indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 420 pages
...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...greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and VOL. VI. F meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 436 pages
...in a description, .and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and VOL. VI. F meadows, than another does in the possession•. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures...
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1804 - 412 pages
...polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. lie can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing 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, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...pleasures that the vulgar, £sfc. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable com** panion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in...description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the pros" pect of fields and meadows, than another does in the posses*' sion. It gives him, indeed, a kind...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 pages
...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...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 pages
...so in the present instance. • ,. He can converse -with a picture, and find an agreeable campanion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in...prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possesfhn. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in •very thing he sees ; and makes the most rude...
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The Spectator, Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 pages
...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 i-efreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...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. Spectator, No. 411. We shall find but few readers lay any considerable stress upon the word picture,...
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