 It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of the imagination, or fancy, (which I shall use promiscuously,) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view,...  Select British Classics - Page 701803Full view - About this book
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 362 pages
...sense, and not of imagination. " By the pleasures of imagination, or fancy," says this Essayist, " I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either...their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, or descriptions. We cannot, indeed, have a single image in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 368 pages
...sense, and not of imagination. " By the pleasures of imagination, or fancy," says this Essayist, " I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either...their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, or descriptions. We cannot, indeed, have a single image in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 744 pages
...sense, and not of imagination. " By the pleasures of imagination, or fancy," says this Essayist, " I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either...when we have them actually in our view, or when we cull up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, or descriptions. We cannot, indeed, have... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 pages
...fancy (which I shall use promiscuously,) 1 here mean such as arise' from visible objects, either \vhen we have them actually in our view, or when we call up their ideas into our _minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion." The parenthesis in the middle... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 260 pages
...his former services ;" it should hnve been, 11 greatly increased the merit of his former services." " By the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean," &c. This passage ought to have had the word " terms" supplied, which would have made it correct: "tfrms... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1838 - 280 pages
...of a faulty monotony. But the interposition of a period prevents this effect. /' 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...interposition of another sentence, however, prevents this unpleasing effect. ' It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that...statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.' In place of, It is this sense w hie h furnishes, the author might have more briefly said, This sense... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - English language - 1841 - 290 pages
...former services : " it should have been, " greatly increased the jnerit of his former services." " By the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean," &c. This passage ought to have had the word " terms" supplied, which would have made it correct: "terms... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 262 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) I here mean," &c. This passage ought to have had the word " terms" supplied, which would have made it correct : "terms... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1841 - 448 pages
...figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that...minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the h'ke occasion. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance... | |
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