 Hence it is that the sense of sublimity arises, not from the sight of an outward object, but from the beholder's reflection upon it; not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex.  The Metropolitan - Page 661837Full view - About this book
 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...to shadows, and throwing a mist over all common-place actualities. It is the nature of thought to be indefinite : definiteness belongs to external imagery...outward object, but from the beholder's reflection upon it; — not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex. Few have seen a celebrated... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1849 - 398 pages
...to shadows, and throwing a mist over all commonplace actualities. It is the nature of thought to be indefinite; — definiteness belongs to external imagery...outward object, but from the beholder's reflection upon it ; — not^ from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex. Few have seen a celebrated... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 396 pages
...reflection upon it; — not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex. Few have seen a celebrated waterfall without feeling something akin to disappointment : it is only subsequently that the image comes back full into the mind, and brings with it a train of grand or beautiful... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 pages
...to shadows, and throwing a mist over all common-place actualities. It is the nature of thought to be indefinite ; — definiteness belongs to external...outward object, but from the beholder's reflection upon it ; — not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex. Few have seen a celebrated... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...to shadows, and throwing a mist over all common-place actualities. It is the nature of thought to be indefinite ;—definiteness belongs to external imagery...outward object, but from the beholder's reflection upon it;—not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex. Few have seen a celebrated... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 574 pages
...mist over all common-place actualities. It is the nature of thought to be indefinite ;— definitencss belongs to external imagery alone. Hence it is that...outward object, but from the beholder's reflection upon it ; not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex. Few have seen a celebrated... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 pages
...to shadows, and throwing a mist over all common-place actualities. It is the nature of thought to be indefinite ; — definiteness belongs to external...outward object, but from the beholder's reflection upon it ; — not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex. Few have seen a celebrated... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...over all common-place actualities. It is the nature of thought to be indefinite ; — defiuiteness should have countenance * 2 CLO. Was he a gentleman ? 1 CLO. He wa upon it ; — not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex. Few have seen a celebrated... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 838 pages
...over all common-place actualities. It is the nature of thought to be indefinite ; — detiniteness f princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But...unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttisb time. When waste upon it ; — not from the sensuous impression, but from the imaginative reflex. Few have seen a celebrated... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 836 pages
...«hadows, and throwing a mist over all common-place actualities. It is the nature of thought to be ov'd of Cfesar, Should outlive Cffisar : we shall...find of him A shrewd contriver ; and, you know, his m •rises, not from the sight of an outward object, but from the beholder's reflection upon it ; —... | |
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