 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
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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...uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures r so that he looks upon the world as it were in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms,... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 Seiten
...meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in everything he sees ; and makes the most rude uncultivated parts...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. A river is traced to its fountain; a flower to its seed ; and an oak to its acorn. If a marine fossil... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1828 - 368 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. A river is traced to'its fountain; a flower to its seed ; and an oak to its acorn. If a marine fossil... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 Seiten
...property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature.administer to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world,...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.' AH this is very beautiful. The illustration is happy; and the style runs with the greatest ease and... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 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. A river is traced to its fountain ; a flower to its seed ; and an oak to its acorn. If a marine fossil... | |
 | 1830 - 472 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...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. A river is traced to its fountain ; a flower to it? seed ; an animal to its embryo, and an oak to its... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 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." §.66. Of thc importance of the imagination in connection icitk the reasoning power. In remarking on... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 Seiten
...a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the vossession. It gives him, -indeed, a kind of property in every...discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal {hcmselces from the generality of mankind. This sentence is easy, flowing, and harmonious. Cite this... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 622 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...that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another lip;ht, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind."... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 610 Seiten
...indeed, a kind of properly in every tiiing he sees, and makes the most rude, uncu'tivated parts of miture administer to his pleasures ; so that he looks upon...con'ceal themselves from the generality of mankind." §. 356.. Of the importance of the imagination in connection with the reasoning power. In remarking... | |
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