 | Paul Elmer More - Literature - 1909 - 376 pages
...Neither have I. I constructed it myself from the Greek words, e£? £y it\a.TTnvt to shape into one." — "The IMAGINATION then, I consider either as primary, or secondary. 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1909 - 374 pages
...Neither have I. I constructed it myself from the Greek words, ets Iv JI^OLTTSIV, to shape into one." — "The IMAGINATION then, I consider either as primary, or secondary. 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... | |
 | University of Iowa - Philology - 1921 - 876 pages
..."Coleridge, Biog. Lit., p. 144. Coleridge prefaces his definition of the imagination with the following: "I shall content myself for the present with stating the main result of the chapter." working of this mental faculty.30 It is reasonable to think that Poe, knowing the summary, would in... | |
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - Poetry - 1925 - 346 pages
...Hell, And men not measure from what height I fell. — Stephen Phillips / From "Blographia Litcrarla." The imagination then I consider either as primary, or secondary. 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...elaborate excuse for not pursuing either it or the whole subject. The last paragraph may be quoted. The IMAGINATION then I consider either as primary, or secondary. 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... | |
 | Stephen Prickett - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 324 pages
...if we recall the actual phraseology of Coleridge's 'desynonymy' in Chapter XIII of the Biographia: The IMAGINATION then, I consider either as primary, or secondary. 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... | |
 | 1979 - 434 pages
...thirteenth chapter of the Biographia Literaria does label imagination a process of two distinct stages: "The IMAGINATION then, I consider either as primary, or secondary. 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... | |
 | Alison Harley Black - Philosophy - 1989 - 410 pages
...quoted passage from his philosophical writings reveals the new coloring of the concept of creation: The IMAGINATION then, I consider either as primary, or secondary. 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... | |
 | Peter J. Kitson, Thomas N. Corns - Autobiography - 1991 - 144 pages
...situates the Imagination as a "repetition" of this perfect act of selfpresentation or autobiography: The IMAGINATION then I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and the prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 302 pages
...Coleridge's definitions are the culmination of his discussion of the relationship between "I am" and "It is": The IMAGINATION then I consider either as primary, or secondary. 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... | |
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The IMAGINATION, then, I consider either as primary or secondary. 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. 
