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 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...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,...pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscu ously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...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,...pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscu ously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...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,...pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscu ously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...peculiar stands opposed to what is possessed in common with others. EXAMPLE. 4. " 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 the sense which furnishes," the author might have said more shortly, " This sense... | |
 | Christianity - 1852 - 514 pages
...of interesting papers on the Imagination, he says, ' By the pleasures ' of the imagination or 1'ancy (which I shall use promiscuously) ' I here mean such as arise from visible objects/ &c. And again ; ' Besides, the pleasures of the imagination have this advantage ' above those of the... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that, oy the pleasures of the imagination or fancy, (which...paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasions. We can not indeed have a single image in the faney that did not make its first entrance... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1854 - 244 pages
...ideas ; so that, by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously,) 1 here mean such as arise from visible objects, either...view, or when we call up their ideas into our minds by pamtinjrs, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion." The parenthesis in the middle of this... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...figures, and brings into our reach sqme of the most remote parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that...pleasures of the imagination or fancy' (which I shall use promiseuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objeets, either when we have them aetually in... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pages
...writing) do not a little encourage me in the prosecution of this my undertaking. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of the imagination, or fancy (teipis which I shall use promiscuously), I here mean such as arise fro'm visible objects. The stomach... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...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 in view, or when we call up their ideas into our minds. by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the... | |
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