 | Lee Oser - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 206 pages
...Tolkien, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses,...all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead. Fancy, on the other hand, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites. The... | |
 | Robert Butterworth - Religion - 2007 - 228 pages
...will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses,...to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital . . . Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites. The fancy... | |
 | Patrick Harpur - Alchemy - 2007 - 524 pages
...will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses,...still, at all events, it struggles to idealize and unify.' In Smith's terms the primary imagination would seem to be the prerogative of Spirit, and the... | |
 | David Mikics - Reference - 2008 - 364 pages
...Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria (1817) describes the imagination as a power that "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...all events it struggles to idealize and to unify." The contrasting power to the imagination is, for Coleridge, the fancy, which "receive[s] all its materials... | |
 | Anne Day Dewey - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 314 pages
...Imagination," an "echo" of the primary, develops the transformative implications of consciousness. "It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead."18... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 1086 pages
...the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates,...process is rendered impossible, yet still, at all event, it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects)... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 1086 pages
...dissipates, in order to re-create; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still, at all event, it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects1 are essentially fixed and dead. Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with... | |
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I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to... 
