This idealization of a language of the past, and of that past itself, produced an enormous effect upon all minds, and it prepared the soil for an abundant harvest.
In the figure of Jesus, ethical and aesthetic idealization guided by religious emotion has created a {97} personality of a peculiarly appealing type well fitted to remain as an ideal to foster and strengthen the noblest tendencies.
We have merely attained the idealization of the creation myth, its most perfect form.
Is not our idealization of poets who died in war a confession that we ourselves believe that they chose the better part,--that they did well to discard imitation of life for life itself?
After the Antonines, the events are related with simple truth to nature, as a mere chronicle, without any idealization at all.
Vischer and Lotze) who have pointed out that the process of aesthetic idealization carried on by the artist is only the higher development of a process carried on in an elementary fashion by all men, from the very nature of their constitution.
New, progress and the; distrust of; idealization of.
Reverence for the past may also be due to a romantic idealization of it.
On a large scale the romantic idealization of the past has been made into a philosophy of history.
The idealization of voice demanded for the reading of such language, is not, however, a departure from nature, but is nature on a higher plane.
There can be little doubt that Webster's impressive idealization of the Constitution gave a certain narrowness to American thinking on constitutional government and the science of politics and legislation.
Her mother had, of course, heard in detail of the rescue; and afterward had heard in still greater detail, as the roseate lime-light of idealization had come to focus more exactly on the scene.
But idealization was something that Wordsworth was obliged to learn painfully.
This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.
But the tendency to take natural law for a norm of action which the supposedly scientific have inherited from eighteenth century rationalism leads to an idealization of the principle of conflict itself.
I regarded you---- But I will not even reproach you with having destroyed my idealization of you.
Art thou, too, but a poetic myth of a later superstition--an idealization more beautiful, more divine than the frail goddesses of Greece and Rome?
But its variations are numerous and in impassioned lovers it may even lead to theidealization of features which are in reality the reverse of beautiful.
It frequently happens that this admiration for racial characteristics leads to the idealization of features which are far removed from æsthetic beauty.
The story is replete with an intensity of life and charming descriptions that recall the pages of Chateaubriand, and its prose often verges upon poetry in its idealization of the Indian race.
Next to the affectionate idealization of parents and home-folk one of the earliest manifestations of the spirit of loyalty in the child is his desire to have a share in the activities of the home.
But play, the idealization of life's experiences, they will find somewhere.
Play is to a child the idealization of life's experiences and the realization of its ideals.
Over and over, through the long hours he had asked himself that, and, as he brooded, the idealization with which he had adorned her fell like an enshrouding drapery to the dust; of the vestment of fancy nothing but tatters remained.
The poet is himself subject to this illusion, and a great part of what is called poetry, although by no means the best part of it, consists in this sort of idealization by proxy.
If he is short-sighted, they are blind, and his poetic world may seem to them sublime in its significance, because it may suggest some partial lifting of their daily burdens and some partial idealization of their incoherent thoughts.
This idealization is, of course, partial and merely relative to the particular adventure in which we imagine ourselves engaged.
From this beginning, if we look down the history of Occidental literature, we see the power of idealization steadily decline.
One of the elements of that higher tradition which Browning was not prepared to imbibe was the idealization of love.
The faculty ofidealization was itself what he valued.
For the divine was reached by the idealization of the human.
She saw in him the idealizationof everything that was wonderful and wistful in childhood.
To her Joan was the very idealization of all womanhood.
It is an idealization of the yellow haoma of the mountains which was used in sacrifices (Yasna, x.
I knew a boy once who applied the idealization formed during the inflammable period to a girl who at that time thought she cared for him.
And, be it said, had Huntington come face to face with the original during these years, it is doubtful whether he would have recognized her; for the idealization had become absolutely real to him.
Nor is the highest conception possible an idealization of self, as I have sufficiently shown in a previous chapter, but is one drawn wholly from the realm of the abstract.
Thus, although it is true that we should not expect idealization to be evolved out of caricature, there is no reason to deny its evolution from a form in which burlesque and romance subsisted side by side.
Every writer, I think, who comes within the limits of pastoral as usually understood, has found a certain idealization and a certain refinement necessary in bringing rustic swains into the domain of art.
But though this process of idealization is practically universal, few poets have confessed to it.
But there are also lower levels on which this idealization plays its tricks upon our fancy.
The first was theidealization of the white hunter whom he had described in "The Pioneers.
But the idealization of the Indian character as seen in Chingachcook and Uncas has been the subject of much controversy.
