 | Benjamin Rush - 1981 - 770 pages
...gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being. ..." 2LAL (1799), p. 13, par. 2: "The effects of odors, upon animal life, appear still more obvious,... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...gradual scale sublim'd To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual, give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence the Soul Reason receives,...and reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same. (5.472-490)... | |
 | Richard A. Shweder - 1984 - 376 pages
...characteristic of men. Both kinds of reason, discursive and intuitive, were qualities of the soul: "The soul reason receives, and reason is her being, discursive or intuitive." But the intuitive was closer to the transcendent truth of God. As Alastair Fowler in his note on the relevant... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 pages
...scale sublim'd, To vital spirits aspire: to animal: To intellectual! — give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding: whence the soul REASON receives....And reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. PAR. LOST, bv2 "Sane si res corporales nil nisi materiale continerent, verissime dicerentur in fluxu... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual;give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, oT intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
..."flow'rs and thir fruit / Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd . . . give both life and sense, / Fancy and understanding, whence the Soul / Reason...and reason is her being, / Discursive, or Intuitive" (5.481-88). Raphael is being quite literal. Flowers work up to fruit, fruit nourishes the bodily senses,... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 pages
...gradual scale sublim'd To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellect, give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence the Soul Reason receives, and reason is her being.34 Milton's specific formulation here may have been too nakedly neo-Platonic for most thinkers... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 pages
...repeated throughout the Renaissance, as for instance by Milton's Raphael (Paradise Lost 5.486-90): whence the Soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse Is oftest [man's], the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same. The... | |
 | Lucien Morin, Louis Brunet - 2000 - 652 pages
...raison démonstrative et de la raison intuitive, celle-ci étant le propre du poète justement. « ... Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive » - « ... ainsi l'âme reçoit la raison, et la raison, discursive ou intuitive, est son être même... | |
 | Sheila A. Spector - 2001 - 234 pages
...parents on the duality of good and evil. Explaining that reason is man's crowning faculty — that "Fancy and understanding, whence the Soul / Reason...and reason is her being, / Discursive, or Intuitive" (5: 486-88) — Raphael says that reason is important because it facilitates obedience: "If ye be found... | |
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To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing... 
