 | Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 sidor
...in one member of this sentence there is an inaccuracy in syntax. It is very proper to say, uttering and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture andvision. But we can with no propriety say, retaining them »'«о all the -varieties ; and yet, according... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 300 sidor
...common phrase, any suchmeans, would have been more natural. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance through...power of retaining, altering, and compounding those linages which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision, that are most agreeable... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 266 sidor
...nature." In one member of this sentence there is an inaccuracy in synt.•jc. It is proper to say, altering and compounding those images which we have...received, into all the varieties of picture and vision. But we cannot OF MR. ADDISON•S STYLE. 101 tvilh propriety say retaining them into all the -varieties... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 sidor
...have been more natural. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did not make its firsi entrance through the sight; but we have the power...compounding those images which we have once received, into.all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for, by this... | |
 | 1821 - 448 sidor
...illustrate what I have advanced, by a remark respecting this subject, from the Spectator, (No. 4II.) i Bl: this faculty a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes more beantiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature. Some part of the complacence with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 356 sidor
...things,' &c. would have been regular. ' We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding, thostf images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision.' It is very proper to say, ' altering and compounding those images which we have once received, into... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 324 sidor
...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varietiesoof picture antt vision ;" but we can with no propriety say, " retaining them into all the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 156 sidor
...phrase, any such means, would have been more natural. " We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance through...into all the varieties of picture and vision that are moat agreeable to the im tgination ; for, by tin- faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 320 sidor
...indeed have a single image, in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance through the sight i but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images -which we hone once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision, that are most agreeable to the imagination... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 sidor
...indeed, have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight ; bnt we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding...are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this {acuity a man in a dungeon is capable of entertainMg himself with scenes and landscapes more beau''nil... | |
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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... 
