| English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination : for by this faculty a man in a dungeon... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination ; for by this faculty a man in a dungeon... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...found inattentive to the minutiae of grammar. Of the classics of this favoured age, I have ventured, though contrary to common opinion, to consider Addison...inaccurate composition. " I cannot stick to pronounce of inch a one that whatever he may think, &c. J" " If a man considers the face of Italy in general, *... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...found inattentive to the minutiae of grammar. Of the classics of this favoured age, I have ventured, though contrary to common opinion, to consider Addison...&c. *" " The last are, indeed, more preferable, &c, &c. f " As I wish to be brief on this ungrateful subject, I shall subjoin but two examples of inelegant... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...should have been used instead of the possessive ihdr l viz. " and whoie right hand is full of gifts." " We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding,...those images which we have once received, into all die varieties of picture and vision." It is very proper to say, " altering and compounding those images... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...and- compounding them into all the varieties 01 picture and vision ;" or, perhaps, better thus : " We have. the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, and of forming then* into all the varieties of picture and vision.,"' both of the nominative and objective... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...indeed have a single image in the fancy, that " did not make its first entrance through the sight -t but we " have the power of retaining, altering and compounding...those images which we have once received, into all the varie" ties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imag*' ination ; for by this faculty,... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...into the heart of man, to conceive the things," &c. would have been regular. " We have the po>\-cr of retaining, altering, and compounding, those 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...man, to conceive the things," &c. would have been regular. "We have the power of retaining, altefing, and compounding, those 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... | |
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