 | Alexander Bain - 1863 - 266 pàgines
...may be quoted as an authority for the use of ' that ' in restrictive clauses ; for example : — ' a man of polite imagination is let into a great many...pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.' Both relatives are introduced correctly in this passage : — ' she had learned that from Mrs. Wood,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1863 - 446 pàgines
...and occasions are superfluous words ; and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous. " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.'5 The term polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of that... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 pàgines
...the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pàgines
...gray-headed old sexton, and accompanied him home to get the key of the church. 2. A num of vivid imagination can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion In a etatue. XI hdTe very often lamented, and hinted my sorrow in several speculations, that the art of... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pàgines
.... . has certainly done most . . . for the improvement of mankind. 7. A man of a polite imagination can converse with a picture . . . and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 8. This is some fellow Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 pàgines
...any description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region ! ' — Bufcke. ' A man of polite imagination is let into a great many...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 pàgines
...assent to the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of polite imagination is let into a great many...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He1 meets with a secret refreshment in a description,* and often feels a greater satisfaction in the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pàgines
.... . has certainly done most . . . for the improvement of mankind. 7. A man of a polite imagination can converse with a picture . . . and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 8. This is some fellow Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and... | |
 | James McCrie - 1871 - 652 pàgines
...much labour from them. The man who has a refined imagination, multiplies greatly his satisfaction. 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 greater delight in the prospect of fields and... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1872 - 250 pàgines
...for the use of ' that ' in restrictive clauses ; for example : — ' a man of polite imagination ia let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.' Both relatives are introduced correctly in this passage : — ' she had learned that from Mrs. Wood,... | |
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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. 
