 | Benjamin Rush - Psychology - 1981 - 770 pages
...Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence...the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being. ..." 2LAL (l799), p. l3, par. 2: "The effects of odors, upon animal life, appear still more obvious,... | |
 | John Mulryan - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 198 pages
...gradual scale sublim'd To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual, give both life and sen.^e, Fancy and understanding, whence the Soul Reason receives, and reason is her being. (5.479-87) In this analogy, the conjunctive adverb So introduces an instance rather than a simile,... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual, give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence...being, Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same. (5.472-490) Everything is... | |
 | Richard A. Shweder - Social Science - 1984 - 376 pages
...characteristic of men. Both kinds of reason, discursive and intuitive, were qualities of the soul: "The soul reason receives, and reason is her being, discursive or intuitive." But the intuitive was closer to the transcendent truth of God. As Alastair Fowler in his note on the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, To vital spirits aspire: to animal: To intellectual! — give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding: whence...And reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. PAR. LOST, bv2 "Sane si res corporales nil nisi materiale continerent, verissime dicerentur in fluxu... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 384 pages
...Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual;give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence...Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, oT intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...depends all nurture: "flow'rs and thir fruit / Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd . . . give both life and sense, / Fancy and understanding, whence...and reason is her being, / Discursive, or Intuitive" (5.481-88). Raphael is being quite literal. Flowers work up to fruit, fruit nourishes the bodily senses,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both Me and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the Soul...being, Discursive, or intuitive: discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same. 490 Wonder not, then, what... | |
 | Dennis Todd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 366 pages
...Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellect, give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence the Soul Reason receives, and reason is her being.34 Milton's specific formulation here may have been too nakedly neo-Platonic for most thinkers... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...aspire, to animal, To imellectual, give both life and sense, Fansie and understanding, whence the Soule Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours. Differing but in degree, of kind the same. (V.479-90) Here the angel... | |
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To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding ; whence the Soul Reason receives, and Reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive: Discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing... 
