It was an idealisation of form and features, limbs and muscles, an empty glorification of the physical with nothing of course really corresponding to it in the nature of things.
This aspect is essential and easy to appreciate, though its idealisation and full interpretation are difficult.
The step, from the bare historic facts to the idealisation of the Fourth Gospel, has been the work of the Church, in the best sense of that word, aided by the doctrines of the Logos and of Immanence, elaborated by Philosophy.
For here too we trace the personal Stendhalian characteristics, the sympathy with the isolated intellectual, the contempt for the bourgeois and the philistine, the idealisation of an efficiency that is not always achieved.
Yet it may be shown that music is but an idealisation of the natural language of emotion; and that consequently, music must be good or bad according as it conforms to the laws of this natural language.
In respect of its general characteristics, we think it has been made clear that vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealisation of the natural language of passion.
To Elizabeth Shaw, Melville transferred his idealisation of his mother.
In Redburn he says of his youthful idealisation of Allan: “I always thought him a marvellous being, infinitely purer and greater than I was, who could not by any possibility do wrong or say an untruth.
In his wanderings, he had seen sights, and lived through experiences to disabuse him of his fantastic idealisation of woman.
Once in full current of idealisation Montaigne goes on to write as if he soberly believed that savage peoples were descended from a stock that Eve had conceived by an angel before the fall.
Not in vain,” says Melville of the idealisation of himself in the character of Pierre, “had he spent long summer afternoons in the deep recesses of his father’s fastidiously picked and decorous library.
Herman, the second son and third child, was thirteen years old at the time of Allan’s decease: young enough to cherish up into early manhood the most fantastic idealisation of his father.
Solomon's era in the so-called historical books, and, although the stage of idealisation has been reached, is free from the mythology which grew around the name of Solomon.
Several other heroes of the Avesta have assisted in the idealisation of Solomon, notably King Vistaspa, already mentioned.
And it was probably by a similar process of idealisation that a conventional representation of the sacred tree came to be one of the most important symbols of Chaldaean religion.
For this is the worst of a friendship that begins in idealisation rather than in comradeship; and this is the danger of all people who idealise.
But, after all, what is this idealisation of the subject but the highest aim and truest concept of art?
It is for the softening and idealisation of the face from the reality, however, that fault is commonly found with Memlinc as a portrait-painter.
But Isabel did not for a moment admit of eitheridealisation or interested contempt.
My idealisationof Margaret had evaporated insensibly after our marriage.
It matters not what the date, size, or style of the garden, it represents an idealisation of Nature.
It is, however, in the conception of their religion that idealisation has most plainly occurred, for it is mainly the religion of the Ninth Century, that is, of the age immediately preceding the great literary Prophets.
The Antinous statues and coins are reflections of earlier artistic masterpieces, executed with admirable skill, but lacking original faculty for idealisation in the artists.
The whole statue is the idealisation of virtù--that quality so highly prized by the Italians and the ancients, so well fitted for commemoration in the arts.
If we seek a literary parallel for the statesman and the artist in their idealisation of force and personal character, we find it in Pietro Aretino.
There was nothing finite here or tangible, no gladness in the beauty of girlish foreheads or the swiftness of a young man's limbs, no simple idealisation of natural delightfulness.
Defined by their artistic purposes, the first idealises Christian motives; the second is naturalistic; the third attempts an idealisation inspired by revived paganism.
The noble and elevating rhythmus of Greek idealisation is everywhere wanting.
We took our beginning in the infinite, lost our transitory bodily form, and returned to the infinite from which we emanated--a kind of idealisation of the corporeal.
Heavy ordinary people would find it hard to understand Molly's strange idealisation of the glories of the kingdom of this world which she meant to conquer.
How strange now appeared the dreams of her childhood, the idealisation of the young and beautiful mother!
Fourteen years devoted to the idealisationof the mother who had deserted her, and to positive hatred of the relation who had mothered her!
Bare rebellion cannot endure, and no succession of generations can continue nourishing themselves on the poetry of complaint, and the idealisation of revolt.
But he never was swayed by any love that did not excite his imagination: his attachments were ever in proportion to the power of idealisation evoked in him by their objects.
There is a vast amount of idealisation of the Middle Ages--an idealisation which frequently verges on the ridiculous.
And if idealisation is not a selection of given realities but a making articulate of an inner vision it also is a kind of imagination, only it is confined to the pleasantly beautiful, the attractive.
It is, therefore, not improbable that the philosophical idealisation of paiderastia, to which the name of Platonic love is usually given, should rather be described as Socratic.
It was at Athens that the social disadvantages of women told with greatest force; and this perhaps may help to explain the philosophic idealisation of boy-love among the Athenians.
The superb idealisation of past deliverances under the figure of a theophany is prepared for by a retrospect of dangers, which still palpitates with the memory of former fears.
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