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 British Essayists: Spectator - Seite 123herausgegeben von - 1823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 Seiten
...the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. LESSON XIX. ANIMAL LIFE. Living bodies are usually divided into the animal and vegetable kingdoms.... | |
| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 Seiten
...a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every...rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasure : so that he looks upon the world, as it were in another light, and discovers in it a multitude... | |
| Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 Seiten
...a greater satisfaction in the prospects of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. Addison. THE PAINTER-POET.* WHEN Kneller had portrayed the fair With gothic taste yet noble air, POPE... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1839 - 476 Seiten
...no less a judge than Addison, some remarks to this effect, that a refined imagination "gives a man a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind." §. 314. Worksof imagination give different degrees of pleasure. Disposed as we are, however, to maintain... | |
| David Irving - 1841 - 448 Seiten
...a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. B There are indeed but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 538 Seiten
...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." § 215. Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning. In remarking on the subject of the... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 474 Seiten
...that a refined imagination " gives a man a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the roost rude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind," $ 316. Works of imagination give different degrees of pleasure. Disposed as we are, however, to maintain... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - 516 Seiten
...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." $ 215. Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning. Li remarking on the subject of the... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 Seiten
...(possessive) case, as the qualification only of a man. The other instance of negligence begins with, " so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light." By another light the author means, a light different from that in which other men view the world, but... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 Seiten
...a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind." This sentence is easy, 'flowing, and harmonious. We must, however, observe a slight inaccuracy. It... | |
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