 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - Страниц: 400
...interruption of the pleasures of imagination is another and powerful form in which tenacity appears. The province of the imagination is principally visionary, the unknown and undefined. Its pleasures are chiefly the pleasures of creation, and are not in the possession but the pursuit.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - Страниц: 374
...ancient times; and the two last brought to great perfection.—HARTLY. It cannot be concealed, however, that the progress of knowledge and refinement has...natural boundaries, and strips them of their fanciful pretensions.—HAZLET. Knowledge diminishes the Pains of Imagination. See ante 220, and the note. See... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - Страниц: 404
...ever bowed their heads to truth and nature. — DARWIN'S ZOONOMIA. It cannot be concealed, however, that the progress of knowledge and refinement has a tendency to circumscribe the hmits of the imagination, and to clip the wings of poetry. The province of the imagination is principally... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - Страниц: 396
...ever bowed their heads to truth and nature.— DABWIN'S ZOONOMIA. It cannot be concealed, however, that the progress of knowledge and refinement has...and strips them of their fanciful pretensions.— HAZI.ITT. Knowledge diminishes the Pains of Imagination. See ante 150, and the note. See also ante... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - Страниц: 510
...history of the human mind, though it is neither science nor philosophy. It cannot be concealed, however, that the progress of knowledge and refinement has...and undefined : the understanding restores things to then: natural boundaries, and strips them of their fanciful pretensions. Hence the history of religious... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - Страниц: 980
...neither tr*nct nnr phDompliy It nnu< b(> rr-nrraled, however, that the pfngrtw nf ki»>»l»<lf» «ivi refinement has a tendency to circumscribe the limits...history of religious and poetical enthusiasm is much the same ; and both have received a sensible shock from the progress of experimental philosophy. It is... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - Страниц: 474
...history of the human mind, though it is neither science nor philosophy. (It cannot be concealed, however, that the progress of knowledge and refinement has...history of religious and poetical enthusiasm is much the same ; and both have received a sensible shock from the progress of experimental philosophy J It is... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1885 - Страниц: 440
...I drink the visionary power." The sense of the word in line 24 is different. Hazlitt writes, — " The province of the imagination is principally visionary, the unknown and undefined." Sickness within and miserable feeling : Though obscure pangs made curses of his dreams, And dreaded... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - Страниц: 586
...history of the human mind, though it is neither science nor philosophy. It cannot be concealed, however, that the progress of knowledge and refinement has...boundaries, and strips them of their fanciful pretensions. . . . Wherever any object takes such a hold of the mind as to make us dwell upon it and brood over... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - Страниц: 366
...history of the human mind, though it is neither science nor philosophy. It cannot be concealed, however, that the progress of knowledge and refinement has...history of religious and poetical enthusiasm is much the same; and both have received a sensible shock from the progress of experimental philosophy. It is the... | |
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It cannot be concealed, however, that the progress of knowledge and refinement has a tendency to circumscribe the limits of the imagination, and to clip the wings of poetry. The province of the imagination is principally visionary, the unknown and undefined... 
