 | Paul Henri Mallet - Eddas - 1770 - 500 pages
...civilized people. The great objects of nature ftrike more forcibly on rude imaginations. Their paffions are not impaired by the conftraint of laws and education....converfations. The moment the foul, reflecting on its own pperations recurs inwards, and detaches itfelf from exterior objects, the imagination ' £b,ap. X1IK... | |
 | Danes - 1809 - 406 pages
...ftrike more forcibly on rude imaginations. Their paffions are not impaired by the conftraint of hws and education. The paucity of their ideas, and the...nature, images fit to cloath their conceptions in. How fhould abftract terms and reflex ideas, which fo much enervate our poetry, be found in theirs ? They... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - Epic poetry, English - 1823 - 392 pages
...not impaired by the constraint of laws and education. The paucity of their ideas, and the barrenness of their language, oblige them to borrow from all nature images fit to clothe their conceptions in. " The most affecting and most striking passages in the ancient northern... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English essays - 1900 - 468 pages
...not impaired by the constraint of laws and education. The paucity of their ideas and the barrenness of their language oblige them to borrow from all nature images fit to clothe their conceptions in. How should abstract terms and reflex ideas, which so much enervate our... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...not impaired by the constraint of laws and education. The paucity of their ideas and the barrenness of their language oblige them to borrow from all nature images fit to clothe their conceptions in. How should abstract terms and reflex ideas, which so much enervate our... | |
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... flights of fancy may possibly more peculiarly belong to a rude and uncultivated than to a civilized people. The great objects of nature strike more forcibly on rude imaginations. Their passions are not impaired by the constraint of laws and education.... 