 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
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1831 - 284 pages
...promiscuously) I here mean such eu ante from visMe objects, either when we have them actually in aur view, or when we call up their ideas into our minds...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 - 1832 - 378 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 which. furnishes, the author might have more briefly said, This sense... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1832 - 242 pages
...its 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...we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, etatues, descriptions, or any the like occasion." The parenthesis in the middle of this sentence is... | |
 | Spectator - 1832 - 280 pages
...and brings into our re'ach some of the most remote parts ,of the universe. • It is this sense which furnishes the imagination •/-with its ideas; so...pleasures of the imagination or fancy, (which I- shall use promiscu6\isly,) I here meari such as arise from visible objects, either when we have, them actually... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1832 - 222 pages
.... _i. _li . Ii i grea it should have been, "arreatlv increased the merit of his former services." " By the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuouslv) I here mean," &c. This passage ought to have had the word " terms" supplied, which would... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...effect. 'It is this sense which furnishes the imagination wiui its ideas; so that by the pleasures'of the imagination or fancy, (which I shall use promiscuously,)...statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.' In place of, ft is this sense which furnishes, the author might have said more shortly, This sense... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...speaking much and saying little. IX. Before and after a parenthetic member. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy"1 (which I shall use promiscuously"1) I here mean such as arise from visible objects. There is... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...do not a little encourage me in the prosecution of this my undertaking. 249. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that...promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects. 250. The stomach (cramm'd from every dish, a tomb of boiled and roast, and flesh and fish, where bile,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 266 pages
...his former services ;" it should hnve been, " greatly increased the merit of liis 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... | |
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