Still however this stroke is the sensuous image of the original or ideal line, and an efficient mean to excite every imagination to the intuition of it.
The same image will rise into semblance of poetry if thus conveyed: Yon row of bleak and visionary pines, By twilight glimpse discerned, mark!
Nothing is more likely too, than that a vivid image or visual spectrum, thus originated, may become the link of association in recalling the feelings and images that had accompanied the original impression.
As one word may become the general exponent of many, so by association a simple image may represent a whole class.
It would be easy to explain a thought from the image on the retina, and that from the geometry of light, if this very light did not present the very same difficulty.
The temporary union of several currents in one, so as to form the main current of the moment, would present an accurate image of Hartley's theory of the will.
Begin, begin thy noble choice, And let the hills around reflect the image of thy voice.
The superscription and the image of the Creator still remain legible to him under the dark lines, with which guilt or calamity had cancelled or cross-barred it.
In the next moment the image of a swan may arise before me, though I had never seen the two birds together.
And for him did the hundreds toil Despised; in the cold and heat, This image ridiculous bore On their shoulders for morsels of meat!
A splendid image built of man has flown; His deeds inspired of God outstep a Past.
The idea was a common one, but I have no doubt that Dryden owed his use of it as an image to Donne.
The imageof the net is probably derived from Jeremiah v.
The image of the beasts Donne has borrowed from Plato, The Republic, ix.
But as the sun in water we can bear, Yet not the sun, but his reflection there, So let us view her here in what she was, And take her image in this watery glass.
The 'Image of her whom I love', addressed in the first eight lines, seems to be a picture.
This throws down the imagereflected from the surface of the water, through the vertical pipe, into the interior of the boat.
When I closed my eyes to sleep I saw her image before me.
Brigitte accorded me a timid greeting; she could see her troubled image in my eyes.
Thou bringest, gay creature as thou art, A solemn image to my heart.
Successive images making thus deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate more than any single image can do.
And each of them bear theimage of purity and holiness.
And, in such recollection, the thing is not figured as in our view, nor any image formed.
Thou bringst, gay creature as thou art, A solemn image to my heart.
Successive images, thus making deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate the mind more than any single image can.
And each of them bears the image of purity and holiness.
Men who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Webster and Jameson sound the h, and consequently prefer a; as, "But a humbling image is not always necessary to produce that effect.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
And then, by fairy spells, Arndt saw beside it the image of the little peasant as he was when he entered the hill.
Now, close to the well was a little temple dedicated to Gunputti, containing a small shrine and a little clay image of the god.
But for its large size--it grows to a length of eleven inches--it is a nearly exactimage of the British newt larvae.
The [Greek: eidolon] with Plato is the fleeting, transient image of the real thing, and the passage evidently referred to by Bacon is that in the Rep.
One of the companions in captivity of the prophet Daniel, called Abednego by Nebuchadrezzar, by whom with two companions he was cast into a "burning fiery furnace" for refusing to worship the golden image set up by that monarch (Dan.
Greater poets can make an image flash upon the mind, as Pindar sometimes does, by a magic phrase, or by throwing one or two salient points into strong relief.
Now if the rays of light which pass from the tree through the hole in the window-shutter are allowed to fall upon a screen in the darkened room, it will be found that the image is inverted.
Now if we can conceive of these aetherial vortex atoms being joined together, North pole to South pole, and revolving round their axes, we shall then have an exact image of Maxwell's physical conception of Faraday's Lines of Force.
Another image to which he referred suggested a much more conceivable kind of mechanical action by which the celestial motions might be produced, viz.
And I partook of the infinite calm in which she lay: my mind was never in a holier frame than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest.
He lay an image of sadness and resignation awaiting his death.
That sort of image did for the dark ages of ignorance, but now the mind must have more reality; glass eyes and such like.
The king does so; but immediately the image disappears from the mosque.
The Magician Ismeno urges the king to seize a certainimage of the Virgin Mary and shut it up in the royal mosque (thus converting it into a palladium for Jerusalem).
She makes her way to the king's palace, and declares that she alone is guilty of having stolen the sacred image from the mosque.
Hence Dante's joy and gratitude at meeting in the Inferno the "dear paternal image of him who had taught him how man becomes eternal.
I thee implore Let not thy foe have triumph in my fall; Remember that our sin made God himself, To free us from its chain, Within thy virgin womb our image on Him take!
Meseemed, That, while she spake, her image all did burn; And in her eyes such fulness was of joy, As I am fain to pass unconstrued by.
I am too rough and blurred an image of the Creator, to become a bestower of life.
On the other hand, she reproduced a truth, whose germ had just been imbibed from others, moulded after her own image and quickened by her own life, with marvellous rapidity.
Manzoni has spiritual efficacy in his looks; his eyes glow still with delicate tenderness, as when he first saw Lucia, or felt them fill at the imageof Father Cristoforo.
One of these valleys so immediately suggests an image of the fair company that might fill it, and live so easily, so naturally, so wisely.
Her image was radiant and pliant and altogether love-worthy, but her thoughts were sad and stern.
Marie Louise turned and came up like a wax image on casters pulled forward by an invisible window-dresser.
God's image makes us so large that we cannot live within ourselves, nor even for ourselves, and be satisfied.
If now and then she toyed with a heart, it was but to see her image in it once or twice and toss it aside.
Evidently, therefore, the otter was originally a god like the boar, the image of which, as Tacitus records, was worn for protection by the Baltic amber searchers of Celtic speech.
And why, if he must renounce her, could he not at least retain her image in stainless beauty?
She often spoke of her pretty mamma, but as of some image of a fairy-tale, which had no place in every-day life.
Yet shall Thy shadowed image fill our breast, And waft its homage to Thy deity.
How sweetly she bends o'er each plague-tainted face, With looks that are lighted with holiest grace; How kindly she dresses each suffering limb, For she sees in the wounded the image of Him.
And when I fain would sing them, My spirit fails and faints; And vainly would it image The assembly of the Saints.
If you withhold your picture it will do no good, for I have your face here in my heart, and you cannot take that image from me.
She walked up to the bureau and examined her own image in the mirror; and there, on her cheeks, were the unmistakable traces of the tears of vexation and disappointment.
The first time I met Gertrude I could have sworn my boyhood's love was restored to me; she is so entirely the image of what Agnes was.
Looking rigorously into the past few weeks, she felt that long before she was aware of the fact, an image to which she refused homage must have stood between her heart and Gordon's.
At first she saw him growing up before her eyes the living imageof his father.
This light, however, being somewhat crude, did not do justice to the ladies; it gave everything the sharpness of animage in a camera.
Only in her ballad," replied the General, after skilfully blowing a large cloud of smoke from a pipe made in the image of a cannon on its gun carriage.
But in the countries I speak of, the number of gods is according to the number of churches, and even houses; for every house contains an image or picture of some saint or other, who is considered as the tutelary guardian of the family.
Happy is the rare fate of the true--to wake and come forth and meet in the majesty of the truth, in the image of God, in their very being, in the power of that love which alone is being.
God not only good but infinitely good--infinitely better than she had dared to think him, fearing to imagehim better than he was!
She presides over that variety and that wide range of objects, so diverse in the universality of their type, that the eighteenth century created in her image to surround her existence, to serve her and to adorn her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "image" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
