 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
 | Friendship - 1841 - 358 pages
...ever have furnished. ..-._• -. Speaking of corporeal vision, Addison says, " It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that...we have them actually in our view, or when we call them up into our minds by paintings," &c. In another place of the same paper, referring to the reader,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...interposition of a period prevents this effect. " It is this sense which furnishes the unagination with its ideas ; so that, by the pleasures of the...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 sliall... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...faulty monot ony. 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) 1 here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1845 - 638 pages
...them prevents this eflect. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so tliat by the pleasures of the Imagination or Fancy (which I shall use promiscuously JI here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view ; or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 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 - 1849 - 446 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 by the pleasures of the imagination, or fancy, (terms which I shall use promiscuously,) I here mean such as arise from visible objects. 250. The stomach... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by the pleasures of the imagination, or fancy, (terms which I shall use 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 466 pages
...interpos,tion of a period prevents this effect. " It is this sense which furnishes the ,magination with its ideas ; so that, by the 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 - 1850 - 162 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 :... | |
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