Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes, 1883 - 486 pages |
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... imagination . By the power of fancy I can imagine a golden mountain , or an ebony ship with sails and ropes of silk . When I describe a picture of that kind to another , the idea he forms of it is termed a conception . Imagination is ...
... imagination . By the power of fancy I can imagine a golden mountain , or an ebony ship with sails and ropes of silk . When I describe a picture of that kind to another , the idea he forms of it is termed a conception . Imagination is ...
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... imagination . * 20. As ideas are the chief materials employed in reasoning and reflecting , it is of consequence that their nature and differences be understood . It appears now that ideas may be distinguished into three kinds : first ...
... imagination . * 20. As ideas are the chief materials employed in reasoning and reflecting , it is of consequence that their nature and differences be understood . It appears now that ideas may be distinguished into three kinds : first ...
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... imagination is to himself the cause of the third . It is scarce necessary to add , that an idea , originally of imagination , being conveyed to others by language or any other vehicle , becomes in their mind an idea of the second kind ...
... imagination is to himself the cause of the third . It is scarce necessary to add , that an idea , originally of imagination , being conveyed to others by language or any other vehicle , becomes in their mind an idea of the second kind ...
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... imagination , is more than compensated by their greatness and variety , which are boundless ; for by the imagination , exerted without control , we can fabricate ideas of finer visible objects , of more noble and heroic actions , of ...
... imagination , is more than compensated by their greatness and variety , which are boundless ; for by the imagination , exerted without control , we can fabricate ideas of finer visible objects , of more noble and heroic actions , of ...
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... imagination , sen- timent , reason . Besides imagination and reason , the man of taste ought to possess an enlightened but ardent love of beauty : he must take delight in meeting it , must search for it , must summon it . To comprehend ...
... imagination , sen- timent , reason . Besides imagination and reason , the man of taste ought to possess an enlightened but ardent love of beauty : he must take delight in meeting it , must search for it , must summon it . To comprehend ...
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