In August he returned to Congress and most gladly affixed his name to that sacred instrument upon which his imagination had feasted for years.
Language can never portray nor imagination fully conceive the enthusiastic joy that marked the promulgation of the Declaration of Independence among the people.
He possessed a brilliant and flowing fancy, a lively imagination and captivating manners.
No imagination can fully conceive--no fancy can truly paint--no pen clearly portray, no language can half express the heart rending reality of that last sad interview between the father and his son.
The most brilliant imagination can but faintly conceive--the strongest language can never portray to the life the thrilling--the melting scene that followed.
Like most lonely people who dislike their solitude, she often felt the temptation to soliloquize; especially since her imagination was vigorous, and sometimes loved, as well, to let mount from its wrist the agile falcon of fancy.
So actively was my imagination at work that I felt again the menace which so long had hung over me; I felt as though that murderous yellow cloud still cast its shadow upon England.
I had theories, as I have said, and when, having paid the deposit and secured possession of the keys, I was enabled to visit the place alone, I was fortunate enough to obtain evidence to show that my imagination had not misled me.
Fu-Manchu to establish himself, yet, unless my imagination had strangely deceived me, from the window of the antique dealer who traded under the name of J.
We looked into a number of rooms all well and comfortably furnished, but although my imagination may have been responsible for the idea, they all seemed to possess a chilly and repellent atmosphere.
For some time I stood in my doorway, wondering in a disinterested fashion which now I cannot explain, if the hidden enemy had revealed himself to me, or if disordered imagination had played me a trick.
My doubts were dissolved; this was no trick of an imagination disordered.
And it was true--I knew that it was true; he suffered all this and more, for if he had no conscience, at least he had fear and imagination to quicken and multiply the fear.
We have had six glorious days in Sicily, and it is fit that these wild ramblings of mine with the Goddess should end here amidst such scenes of loveliness that even the imaginationcan conjure up nothing more exquisite.
It affects the imagination as Stonehenge does when you see it for the first time.
With imagination you have the glamour of the past and all the wonderful things that have happened in a place, as well as the mere beauty of the present.
When I was a little boy we used to have honey in red-brown earthenware pots labelled "Finest Narbonne Honey," and for years the place figured in my imagination as a smiling region of brilliant flowers.
All his will was with the wholesome thing, but his brain, his imagination were always hunting.
They did not strike the imagination of the public in the same way as the Pierre series, but they made many friends.
There is none today that appeals to the popular imagination as Kitchener does in England or Joffre in France.
Never in its worst nightmares had hallucinated imagination conjured up the progress made in the art of mowing down human lives.
It is in this sense that Bismarck said, "Imagination and sentiment are to science and intelligence what the tares are to the wheat.
In place of being deadened by fatigue, his imagination seemed quickened and set free.
It was in one sense a pity that those who had the gift of it and cultivatedimagination had, for the most part, never been forced into the fight; but that was, perhaps, not a matter of much importance.
His imagination had been at work during the past few minutes, exaggerating all the horrors and difficulties of Thelma's journey to the Altenfjord, till he was in a perfect fever of irritable excitement.
The sound that so affected his disordered imagination was nothing but the wind blowing through the narrow hole formed by the removal of the stone; but it was useless to explain this simple fact to one in his condition.
All the witchery of an Eastern night lay upon Afcheh--surely, if Shahrazad had but once conducted her lord to his open window, she might have spared her fertileimagination many an effort.
But it is mainly the charm of the imagination and of memories of Arabian Night stories in which disguised princes ate preserved pomegranate seeds, and found them delicious.
The pitiful story has taken hold of the imagination of half the Mohammedan world.
With an alluring cry like this, it will be readily understood how easy it was to inflame the imagination of the illiterate and uneducated Boer, and to work upon his vanity and prejudices.
A suzerainty is a vague term, but in politics, as in theology, the more nebulous a thing is the more does it excite the imaginationand the passions of men.
The effect of this accident upon my imagination had not yet ceased, when one night, as I was sitting at my little table reading, and half perished with cold, I heard a number of voices not far from me.
Several individuals, in particular, appeared to my imagination depicted in the most revolting colours.
If I had sometimes reason to tremble, how should I have been enabled to regulate my vain imagination in an atmosphere somewhat inspiring, and open to the breathings of joy.
Often did I beseech Heaven to throw a charm round her religious solitude, and not permit that her imagination should paint in too horrible colours the sufferings of the sick and weary captive.
Here, indeed, was a field vast enough for the imagination to lose itself in.
My imagination sets to work, and the object must be very beautiful to satisfy me.
Doubtless the question of heredity fascinated him as it did only because it remained obscure, vast, and unfathomable, like all the infant sciences where imagination holds sway.
It stands as a testimony to the influence of faith and devotion upon the imagination and the artistic spirit.
These tinted statues appeal powerfully to the imagination of the Sevillian populace.
The spell of the past holds one; and before the imagination troops a long procession of illustrious sovereigns, courtiers, counsellors and menials.
But enough: imagination is at this point repelled.
But the romantic personality of Isabella the Catholic will always appeal to the imagination of the Andalusians.
His image arises before the imaginationas we stray under the lemon and orange trees of his quaint and charming pleasure-grounds.
But imagination calls forth the figure of a Mueddjin upon the minaret, chanting the Adyan, or call to prayer, as the sun tints the sky at its setting.
I trust that I have succeeded in awaking here and there an echo of the past, and in bringing before the imagination the figures of Moorish potentate or sage, and of Spanish ruler, artist, priest and soldier.
As we stand there, the imagination conjures a procession accompanying a victim to the awful torture of the stake.
For this purpose, and at this period of life, it were well to draw the imagination to "the enjoyment of the beautiful through an actual contemplation of it, and for this purpose the study of painting and sculpture is of pre-eminent value.
Supposing now that the girl has passed beyond the psychical stage of the Imagination into the stage of Logical Thought, it is immensely important that in this stage also she should not miss a systematic education.
The extravagances of imagination and feeling, engendered in an idle brain, have much to do with the ill-health of girls.
Jenks was there, and alive; but what the Captain wanted of him was beyond the imagination of an old man who'd been brought up Godfearing in Gloucester.
I have never beheld the sea serpent, though I've heard of him times enough, and spoke with those who'd seen him, honest men owning no moreimagination than a block of holystone.
Everywhere in his poems we find evidences of the deep impression made upon his imagination by the paintings and sculptures of subterranean Rome.
But Algernon's imagination did not wander very far from the present.
Castalia had never been apt to let her imaginationbusy itself with the sorrows of others, and at this moment the conception had no softening effect.
The terror of listening to what Powell said was not so appalling to his imagination as the terror of fancying what he might be saying when he (Algernon) should not be there to hear it.
In imagination he foresaw my pecuniary, my brilliant successes, therefore he strove to possess me.
The whole extent of our knowledge or imagination reaches not beyond our own ideas limited to our ways of perception.
A cold and still-eyed figure for him to wrap the veil of his imagination round, that was what she had been.
Maries live a life compounded of romance and imagination and emotion.
All of which seems a rather startling flight of the imagination to have had its beginning in the sight of one photograph of a young woman.
When he had finished, Miles said to himself-- "Lo, what an imagination he hath!
He wondered if they would believe the marvellous tale he should tell when he got home, or if they would shake their heads, and say his overtaxed imagination had at last upset his reason.
Even a speech, for instance, may be addressed to sensuous imagination and feeling.
The specific need of art, however, in contradistinction to other action, political or moral, to religious imagination and to scientific cognition, we shall consider later.
We are, however, not unaccustomed to such phrases, and our imagination is equal to its habitual task of evading their meaning.
And lastly, the source of artistic creations is the free activity of fancy, which in her imagination is more free than nature's self.
For this reason the proper medium of poetical representation is the poetical imagination and intellectual portrayal itself.
And for this reason Christianity retires from the sensuousness of imagination into intellectual inwardness, and makes this, not bodily shape, the medium and actual existence of its significance.
Yet just in this its highest phase art ends by transcending itself, inasmuch as it abandons the medium of a harmonious embodiment of mind in sensuous form, and passes from the poetry of imagination into the prose of thought.
Yet such a kind of imagination rather rests on the recollection of states that he has gone through, and of experiences that have befallen him, than is creative in its own strength.
Not only has art at command the whole wealth of natural forms in the brilliant variety of their appearance, but also the creative imagination has power to expatiate inexhaustibly beyond their limit in products of its own.
For example, the Christian imagination will be able to represent God only in human form and with man's intellectual expression, because it is herein that God Himself is completely known in Himself as mind.
His lively imagination made him a great favourite with us, but the Philosophie de Lyon was more than he could endure, and he left us.
Their lively imagination creates an aerial world which satisfies their aspirations.
Her imagination took quite a childish turn, and she wanted to be able to fancy that she was employed in doing things for him.
The statues of these saints are extraordinarily life-like, and in the eyes of people of vivid imagination they may well seem to be actually alive.
Her lively imaginationwould then assume free scope, and, as so often happens with old people, the recollections of her early days came back with special force and clearness.
He had neither the brilliantimagination which will give a lasting value to certain of Lacordaire's and Montalembert's works, nor the profound passion of Lamennais.
The hours flowed on slowly like the motion of her needle; her hapless imagination was relieved.
Hortus conclusus, fons signatus, very plainly represented by means of what may be described as mural miniatures, excited my curiosity very much, but my imagination was too chaste to carry my thoughts beyond the limits of pious wonder.
But I see what those whose imaginationruns away with them fail to see, viz.
He was liable to hallucinations of all kinds; the line between imagination and reality, which ordinary people draw quite definitely, seems scarcely to have existed for him.
The large earthworms, which twined themselves in his long and matted hair, almost ceased to excite sensations of horror"--that is the kind of stuff in which the imagination of the young Shelley rioted.
And it is on the imagination that poetry works, strengthening it as exercises strengthen a limb.
