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" But the Imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; — • the Soul may fall away from it, not being able to sustain its grandeur ; but, if once felt and acknowledged, by no act of any other faculty of the mind can it be relaxed, impaired,... "
The Philomathic journal - Page 41
by Philomathic institution - 1825
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 75

1842 - 592 pages
...influence, knowing that it will not be out of her power to resume it on an apt occasion. But the imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; the soul...can it be relaxed, impaired, or diminished. Fancy w given to quicken and to beguile the temporal part of our nature, imagination to incite and support...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...knowing that it will not be out of her power to resume it upon an apt occasion. But the Imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion; — the...Imagination to incite and to support the eternal. — Yet is it not the less true that Fancy, as she is an active, is also, under c 2 own laws and in...
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ..., Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...resume it upon an apt occasion. But the Imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion j — the Soul may fall away from it, not being able to...Imagination to incite and to support the eternal. — Yet is it not the less true that Fancy, as she is an active, is also, under her own laws and in...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 26

1829 - 1008 pages
...light*; he has even been very merry witn his own darling power, Imagination, of ! which he says, " the soul may fall away from it, not being able to sustain its grandeur !" That he has fallen, overdazzled in the attempt to illustrate her divine energies, most persons will...
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The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1820 - 378 pages
...knowing that it will not be out of her power to resume it upon an apt occasion. But the Imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion; — the...Imagination to incite and to support the eternal. — Yet is it not the less true that Fancy, as she is an active, is also, under her own laws and in...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 416 pages
...knowing that it will not be out of her power to resume it upon an apt occasion. But the Imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; — the...Imagination to incite and to support the eternal. — Yet is it not the less true that Fancy, as she is an active, is also, under her own laws and in...
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The Quarterly Journal of Education, Volume 3

1832 - 410 pages
...one than the other ; and this may perhaps justify the enthusiastic assertion of Wordsworth, that ' fancy is given to quicken and to beguile the temporal...imagination to incite and to support the eternal.' Thus, to take the two other instances adduced by Mr. Coleridge, although there be more visible resemblance...
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Treatises on Poetry, Modern Romance, and Rhetoric: Being the Articles ...

1839 - 394 pages
...knowing that it will not be out of her power to resume it upon an apt occasion. But the imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; the soul...temporal part of our nature, imagination to incite and support the eternal. Yet it is not the less true, that fancy, as she is an active, is also, under her...
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The Ceylon magazine

632 pages
...nay fall away from it, uot being able to sustain its grandeur, but, if onca frit and «cV)loirledged, by no act of any other faculty of the mind can it be relaxed, impaired, or diminished," Wordsworth's preface to Poems, first published in 2 VoL STO. ISIS. •f See Wartmrtnn's Divine Legation...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 41; Volume 75

1842 - 594 pages
...influence, knowing that it will not be out of her power to resume it on an apt occasion. But the imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; the soul...temporal part of our nature, imagination to incite and support the eternal. Yet it is not less true, that fancy, as she is an active, is also, under her own...
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