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" The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. "
Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page 172
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 351 pages
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The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry

Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 206 pages
...to Heb. 2. 7, " And didst set him over the works of thy hands." Cf. Coleridge, Biog. Lit. ch. 13: " The primary imagination I hold to be the living power...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." 8 31. Force of a divine breath. Cf. 43 14, 57 25. 9 4. Name above all names. Philippians 2. 9. I. 2...
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The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry

Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...Alluding to Heb. 2. 7, " And didst set him over the works of thy hands." Cf. Coleridge, Biog. Lit. ch. 13: "The primary imagination I hold to be the living power...the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." 8 31. Force of a divine breath. Cf. 43 14, 57 25. 9 4. Name above all names. Philippians 2. 9. I. 2:...
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An Answer to the Question 'what is Poetry?': Including Remarks on Versification

Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1893 - 120 pages
...the naked eye of our common consciousness. 1 Cf. infra SO 25-81 15. [Biographia Literaria, chap. 13.] The imagination then I consider either as primary...perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of 5 the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former,...
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Coleridge's Principles of Criticism: Chapters I., III., IV., XIV.-XXII of ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 272 pages
...Cook, ed., p. 8,1. 8 etseq., Ruskin, Modern Painters, Vol. II., Chaps. I.-IV. L. 15. 2. "Th^^PP^ra then I consider either as primary or secondary. The...perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind q£ the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former,...
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A History of English Critical Terms

Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 364 pages
...was not usually supposed to assist in its own verbal expression. The primary imagination I hold to bu the living power and prime agent of all human perception,...eternal act of creation in the infinite " I Am." The. _secondarjMs an ej;np of the former, identical in kind, but differing jji_d_cgreej and in tjjsjnode...
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A History of English Critical Terms

Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 360 pages
...was not usually supposed to assist in its own verbal expression. The primary imagination I hold to bo the living power and prime agent of all human perception,...the eternal act of creation in the infinite " I Am." Tlie secondary is an echo of the former, identical in kind, but differing in degree, and in the mode...
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The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 10

Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - History, Modern - 1907 - 988 pages
...the mind of the individual poet the centre of all poetical production. "The Imagination," he says, "I consider either as primary or secondary. The primary...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting with the conscious will, yet still as identical...
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Biographia Literaria, Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 388 pages
...will find at the close of the second volume. The IMAGINATION then, I consider either as primary, or 5 secondary. The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the...finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite LAM*- The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the...
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An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English language - 1909 - 402 pages
...the latter singly." (The imagination Coleridge distinguishes as the "shaping and modifying power.") " The imagination, then, I consider either as primary...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as...
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Shelburne Essays: Studies of religious dualism

Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1909 - 384 pages
...Neither have I. I constructed it myself from the Greek words, elf £v ickdrreiv, to shape into one." — "The IMAGINATION then, I consider either as primary,...act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as...
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