...inquiring into the cause of that beauty.' 'A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasure* that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.' Polite...of which ; an usage which is too frequent with Mr. AddiK>n. Which is a much more definitive word than that, being never employed in any other way than...

...beauty of an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions . of it. —4 A man of 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 statne. He meets with a secret...

...without inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is led 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. He meets with a secret...

...particular and occasions are superfluous words ; and the pronoun it is in some measure ambiguous. " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...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...

...description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region!" — Burke. " A man of 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. He meets with a secret...

...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...

...the various parts of the whole passage be as clear as possible. SECOND MODEL. (Leading assertion.) " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...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...

...relativo thai is seldom, if ever, used by pood writers in any other than a restrictive sense. Again : " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasure's thai the vulgar are not capable of receiving." — Addison, SpecL, No. 411. Here, too, according...

...We immediately acknowledge the beauty of an object, without inquiring into the cause ofthat beauty.' 'A man of a polite imagination is let into a great...more commonly applied to manners or behaviour, than 10 the mind or imagination. There is nothing farther to be observed on this sentence, unless the use...

...emphasis on it would 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 are not capable of receiving ; he can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. That is, he can converse...