 | M. J. Loftie - Manners and customs - 1879 - 304 pages
...dejectedly at an exercise in syntax, and vainly trying to discover the mistake in such a sentence as, "We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision." Poor child ! what with heat and the indolence of mind which has been allowed... | |
 | John Burnet - 1880 - 116 pages
...indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination." We can form no idea of colouring... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1880 - 492 pages
...to refer, not to the faculties, but to the words which are their names. Again he says,— " — but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination." Did Addison mean that we have the... | |
 | James Copner - 1882 - 208 pages
...Addison, "have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...writes, ' have a single image in the Fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are mont agreeable to the Imagination.' If we raise these statements to... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1884 - 346 pages
...a Briton, in any circumstances, in any situation, ought to be ashamed or afraid to avow ? —Ibid. We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination.— Addison. a child's, as all her... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon... | |
 | A. Meserole - English essays - 1896 - 450 pages
...indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by this faculty, a man in a... | |
 | William Basil Worsfold - Criticism - 1897 - 308 pages
...indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight ; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision that are most agreeable to the Imagination ; for by this Faculty a Man in a Dungeon... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 316 pages
...indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight j but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once re/ ceived, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision that are most agreeable to the Imagination... | |
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We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision... 
