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 | English essays - 1810 - 350 pages
...sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by ' the pleasures of theimagination,' or ' fancy,' (which I shall use promiscuously) I here...visible objects, either when we have them actually in pur view, or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 352 pages
...his former services ;" it shouW have been, " greatly increased the merit of his former services." " By the pleasures of the imagination or fancy ('which I shall use promiscuously) I hear mean," &c. This passage ought to have had the word " terms" supplied, which would have made it... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1811 - 464 pages
...another sentence between them prevents this effect. " It is this sense which furnishes the imagina" tion with its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of " the imagination or fancy (which I shall use pro" miscuously), I here mean such as arise from vi" sible objects, either when we have them actually... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...faulty monotony. But the interposition of a period prevents this effeet. «« It is this sense whieh furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that, by the pleasures of the imagination or faney, (whieh I shall use promiseuously) I here mean sueh as arise from visible objeets, either when... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...appear to be limited to objects of sight. " It is the sense of sight," (says Mr. Addison,) " which furnishes the Imagination " with its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of Imagination, I " here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when " we have them actually... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. It is this sense whjch furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that...their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues,. descriptions,or any the like occasion. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...the interposition of another sentence between them, prevents this effect. ' It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that...promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, cither when we have them actually in our view ; or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...the interposition of another sentence between them, prevents this e fleet. ' It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that...the pleasures of the imagination or fancy, (which 1 shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...of a faulty monotony. But the interposition of a period prevents this effect. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that,...paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion. The parenthesis in the middle of -this sentence is not clear. It should have been, terms which I shall... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1818 - 320 pages
...his former services ;"-it should have been, " greatly increased the merit of his former services."- " By the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) 1 here mean," &c. This passage ought to have had the word " terms" supplied, which would have made... | |
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