A Spirit and a Vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour, or a nothing: they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,... Letters and Social Aims - Page 27by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1903 - 848 pages
...think of all the painters who have tried to paint without drawing, and I think of Blake's warning: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...and better light, than his perishing mortal eye can soe, does not imagine at all. . . . Leave out this line (the bounding line, Blake calls it, the hard... | |
| Thomas Griffith - 1875 - 478 pages
...From God alone it comes ! " In Painting, we have a Blake declaring, " He who does not imagine in a stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all." In Poetry, we have a Wordsworth referring to " the vision and the faculty divine," "the fountain-light... | |
| 1876 - 668 pages
...are organised and minutely articulated, beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.' With these cardinal points in Blake's creed in our minds, we may understand and appreciate the most... | |
| 1876 - 642 pages
...are organised and minutely articulated, beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.' With these cardinal points in Blake's creed in our minds, we may understand and appreciate the most... | |
| Joseph Comyns Carr - 1879 - 272 pages
...are organised and minutely articulated, beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.' With these cardinal points of Blake's creed in our minds, we may understand and appreciate the more... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 500 pages
...are organised and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...and in stronger and better light, than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations... | |
| William Blake - 1893 - 324 pages
...are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...at all. The painter of this work asserts that all bis imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen... | |
| 1899 - 704 pages
...needful moment never helps ; he wno does not counsel at the needful moment never counsels. Goethe. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at alT Wm. Blake. He who does not know foreign languages knows nothing of his own. Goethe. 10 He who does... | |
| Joseph Mallord William Turner - 1906 - 92 pages
...are organised and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments...and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. The painter asserts that all his imaginations appear... | |
| Arthur Symons - 1907 - 460 pages
...without execution organised, delineated, and articulated, either by God or man.' And he said also : ' He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.' But Blake's imagination is in rebellion, not only against the limits of reality, but against the only... | |
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