 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - Страниц: 464
...superfluous words ; and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous. " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving." The term polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of that instead of... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - Страниц: 428
...we ought by no means to lay the emphasis upon them. EXAMPLE. 3. A man of a polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving ; he cau converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. In this sentence an emphasis... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1858 - Страниц: 466
...to avoid repetition, which is preferable to that, and is undoubtedly so in the present instance. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...He meets with a secret refreshment in a description t and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in... | |
 | Joseph Catafago - 1858 - Страниц: 368
...passage be as clear as possible. SECOND MODEL. (Leading assertion.) " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. (first explanation.) He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. (Second... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - Страниц: 532
...affected himself with what he so passionately recommends to others. SI. A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar...in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in & description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - Страниц: 416
...suggest. If so, we may pronounce the word at once emphatic. Thus : — A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar...picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. That is, he can converse not only with intelligent beings like himself, but even with such a dumb,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1861 - Страниц: 522
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 | Alexander Bain - 1863 - Страниц: 266
...authority for the use of ' that ' in restrictive clauses ; for example : — ' a man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.' Both relatives are introduced correctly in this passage : — ' she had learned that from Mrs. Wood,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1863 - Страниц: 446
...superfluous words ; and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous. " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.'5 The term polite is oftener applied to manners, than to the imagination. The use of that... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - Страниц: 568
...gray-headed old sexton, and accompanied him home to get the key of the church. 2. A num of vivid imagination can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion In a etatue. XI hdTe very often lamented, and hinted my sorrow in several speculations, that the art of... | |
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A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 
