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 him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most... Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettres - Page 140by Hugh Blair - 1822 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...him, indeed, a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ; so that he looks upon the whole world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal themselves... | |
| 1858 - 434 pages
...landscape, and feel the most delightful enthusiasm in the enjoyment of so much pleasure. In short, he looks upon the world as it were in another light,...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. The pleasures of the imagination are not only keenly alive to every new object, but expand with the... | |
| Joseph Catafago - 1858 - 368 pages
...few remarks illustrative of this latter assertion. sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the whole •world, as it were, in another light ; and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that conceal... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1860 - 652 pages
...; and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature, ad mi n ister to his pleasures: so that )w looks upon the world, as it were, in another light,...charms that conceal themselves from the generality oí mankind. * All this is very beautiful. The illustration is happy ; and the stylo runs with the... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...him, indeed, a kind of property in. every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he...world, as it were, in another light, and discovers m it a multitude of charms that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. 38. Prosperity,... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1864 - 582 pages
..."gives a man a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most ruile, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ; so that he...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.' § 215. Impsitance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning. In remarking on the subject of the... | |
| Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 pages
...everything he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasure ; so that he looks upon the world as it were in another...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind. There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures... | |
| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1866 - 654 pages
...him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees ; and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts of nature, administer to his pleasures: so that he...multitude of charms that conceal themselves from the geueralitv of mankind. ' All tin's is very beautiful. The illustration is happy ; and the style runs... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1869 - 564 pages
...gives a man a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most ruile, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ; so that he...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.' $ 215. Impaitance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning. In remaiking'on the subject of the... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 434 pages
...most rude, uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures ; so that he looks upon the whole world, as it were, in another light, and discovers...conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.' — Addison. In the whole range of English literature, there is, perhaps, no passage more strikingly... | |
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