 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,...  Essays on Art - Sida 46efter Joseph Comyns Carr - 1879 - 253 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1903 - 848 sidor
...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... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 sidor
...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...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and... | |
 | 1865 - 600 sidor
...to which we request attention. Blake is sneaking of the visions described by the ancient Prophets. ' He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and... | |
 | 1865 - 600 sidor
...to which we request attention. Blake is speaking of the visions described by the ancient Prophets. ' He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and... | |
 | Anonymous - 1865 - 602 sidor
...of the visions described by the ancient Prophets. ' He who does not imagine in stronger and letter lineaments, and in stronger and better light, than...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 300 sidor
...genins, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus: "He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 306 sidor
...genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus: "He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments,...better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, docs not imagine at all. The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear. to him... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1875 - 478 sidor
...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 sidor
...phantom of the brain, without form or shape for art to render, he adds, ' a spirit or a vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour...does not imagine at all.' With these cardinal points in Blake's creed in our minds, we may understand and appreciate the most remarkable qualities of his... | |
 | 1876 - 642 sidor
...phantom of the brain, without form or shape for art to render, he adds, ' a spirit or a vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour...does not imagine at all.' With these cardinal points in Blake's creed in our minds, we may understand and appreciate the most remarkable qualities of his... | |
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