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 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 320 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,...imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) 1 here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view, or when... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 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...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 468 pages
...miscuously), I here mean such as arise from vi" sible objects, either when we have them actu" ally in our view ; or when we call up their ideas " into our minds by painting, statues, descrip" tions, or any the like occasion." In place of, " It is this sense which... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 398 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 by ' the pleasures of the imaF 'nation,' or ' fancy,' which I shall use promiscuously, here mean such as arise from visible objects,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 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,...paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasions. We can not indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 pages
...former services;" it should have been, " greatly increased the merit of his former services." " Bt the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean," iic. This passage ought to have had the word " terms" supplied, which would have made it correct :... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1824 - 510 pages
...But the interposition of another sentence between them prevents this effect. " It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of imagination or fancy, (which I shall use promiscuously) 1 here mean such as arise from visible objects,... | |
 | Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...little encourage me in the prosecution of this ray undertaking. Spsrt. No. 124. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that...promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects. Ibid. No. 411. In these examples, we find the parenthesis break in upon the sense ; but as the interruption... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 658 pages
...sentence between them, prevents this effect. 'It is this sense which furnishes the imagination \vii.n its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of the imagination...statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.' In place of, // is this sense which furnishes, the author might have said more shortly, This sense... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...would 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 in view,... | |
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