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The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics - Page 269
1795
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...of the imagination which flow from the ideas of visible objects, when the objects are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories, or formed into agreeable visions of things that are either absent or fictitious. The pleasures of the imagination, taken in...
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Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric: Abridged. With Questions

Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 pages
...of the imagination, which flaw from the ideas of visible objects, when the object! are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories, or formed into agreeable visions of things that are either absent or fictitious. Neatness and brevity are peculiarly requisite...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Kectures of Dr. Blair

Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 pages
...of the imagination, which flow from the ideas of visible objects, when the objects are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories, or formed into agreeable visions of things, that are either absent or fictitious.' In laying down the division of a subject,...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To which are Added, Copious ...

Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...the imagination, which flow from the idea* 2K of visible objects, when the objects are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories, or formed into agreeable visions of things, that are either absent or fictitious.' 'The pleasures of the imagination, taken...
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The Spectator, no. 315-635

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...of the imagination which flow from the ideas of visible objects, when the objects are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories or formed into agreeable visions of things that are either absent or fictitious. The pleasures of the imagination, taken ,/...
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akinside: With His Life

Mark Akenside - 1838 - 352 pages
...qf the imagination which flow from the ideas of visible objects, when the objects are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories, or formed into agreeable visions of things that are either absent or fictitious." Tuis definition seems to exclude a blind man...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 pages
...of the imagination, which flow from the ideas of visible objects, when the objects are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories, or formed into agreeable visions of things, that are either absent or fictitious.' In laying down the division of a subject,...
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The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1842 - 318 pages
...other, those pleasures which flow from the ideas of visible objects, when the objects are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories, or formed into agreeable visions of things that are either absent or fictitious." These considerations give the painter that...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...of the imagination which flow from the ideas of visible objects, when the objects are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories, or formed into agreeable visions of things, that are either absent or fictitious." CRITICISM. It is a great rule in laying down...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...of the imagination, which flow from the ideas of visible objects, when the objects are not actually before the eye, but are called up into our memories, or formed into agreeable visions "of things, that are either absent or fictitious." Neatness and brevity are peculiarly requisite...
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