.... . has certainly done most . . . for the improvement of mankind. 7. A man of a polite imagination can converse with a picture . . . and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 8. This is some fellow Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and...

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...much labour from them. The man who has a refined imagination, multiplies greatly his satisfaction. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...secret refreshment in a description, and often feels greater delight in the prospect of fields and meadows than the possessors of them may enjoy. Statuary,...

...paragraph makes the following assertions in regard to what is called a man "of polite imagination:"— " He meets with a secret refreshment in a description,...greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and 72 WORDS AND THEIR USES. meadows than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind...

...antecedents, or wish to avoid the ungrateful repetition of which in the same sentence. EXAMPLE. 8. " He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property m every thing he sees, and makes the most rude, uncultivated parts f nature administer to his pleasures;...

..." of polite imagination : " — " He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and 3 lit n feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields...possession. It gives him, Indeed, a kind of property in everything he sees, and makes the most rude and uncultivated parts of Nature administer to his pleasures;...

...sufficiency.' A slight amount of contraction does not dispense with the rule : ' A man of polite imagination can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.' But when the sentences are very closely related to each other, and connected by the conjunctions '...

...polite imagination is led into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving; for he can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.' 4 ' He would not take the crown ; Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.' 5. ' Although the oppressive...

...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 companion in « statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description ; and often feels a greater satisfaction...

...polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures lhat the vulgar are not cnpable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable...in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of properly in everything he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to...