 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 a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...  The Spectator ... - Pagina 741803Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pagina’s
...refreshment in a description ; and oftea feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal them solves from the generality of mankind." This sentence is easy, flowing, and harmonious. We must,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1845 - 638 pagina’s
...refreshment in a description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...pleasures; so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in anottier light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal themselves from the generality... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1848 - 472 pagina’s
...some remarks to this effect, that a refined imagination " gives a man a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind." $ 316. Works of imagination give different degrees of pleasure. Disposed as we are, however, to maintain... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1849 - 650 pagina’s
...; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another ,ioes in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of...sees ; and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature,administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pagina’s
...refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession. It gives...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. 58. Prosperity, as truly asserted by Seneca, very much obstructs the knowledge of ourselves. No man... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 466 pagina’s
...refreshment in a description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature admimster to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pagina’s
...refreshment in a description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal them selves from the generality of mankind." This sentence is easy, flowing, and harmonious. We must,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pagina’s
...refreshment in a description; and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, iu another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal them selves from the generality... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pagina’s
...refreshment in a description j and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives...and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature admmister to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1852 - 564 pagina’s
...some remarks to this effect, that a refined imagination " gives a man a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts...charms that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.11 $ 215. Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning. In remarking on the subject... | |
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