Now first I submit the rim or verge, without touching the brilliants, mind you, to the action of a little preparation of my own--a gentle but penetrative solvent.
It seemed eminently fitted for a poet's hand, full of subjects alluring to the penetrative imagination.
And he did this work with a searching analysis, a humorous keenness, a joyous boldness, and an opulent imagination at once penetrative and passionate.
Our nature becomes ingenious in devices, penetrative of the enemy, confidently citing its cause for being frankly elvish or worse.
A yell, and a shrill penetrative whistle from the rear of the house, now told of Theodore's activities at the window of the room where he and his father were imprisoned.
He glanced Garrison over in his sharp, penetrative manner, heightened by his nervousness, and took a chair.
Nothing must be allowed to disfranchise manhood; and he who manumits the poet from social and ethical bonds is not logical, nor penetrative into the dark mystery of soul, nor is he the poet's friend.
His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits.
In the eyes of refined modern lovers, every spotless maiden has that gift of penetrative virginity.
They reproduced the conditions of life in the light of penetrative observation and ideal contemplation; they illustrated its duties in their breach and in their observance, by precepts and well-chosen portraits of character.
He may not have a good voice or enunciation, but he puts his heart and his inter-penetrative intelligence into every line, word, and syllable.
The difference in the effect of the magnetic field on these rays, and the difference in their penetrative power, led to their detection and allows of their separate examination.
His penetrativeimagination will see farther and deeper than the learning of the mere scholar.
He saw that the truth of nature does not lie on the surface, but in a deeper unity, which the penetrative insight of the artist alone can grasp.
They have little penetrativepower and are readily absorbed in passing through a sheet of paper or through a few inches of air.
Certainly he has prepared them to stand the more searching and penetrative gaze of the coming generation.
With penetrative eye, distant but careful observations, I would refer him to the dream which the architect had drawn.
Dante, passing from the darkness of the Inferno, is filled with a sharp and joyful sense of light, which makes him deal with it, in the opening of the Purgatorio, in a wonderfully touching and penetrative way.
And it is in this penetrative suggestion of life that the secret of that sweetness of his is to be found.
They lay with all their boundaries confused by a pall of purple gloom, then darkly transparent, and dissolving before the returning sun, whose penetrative influence was felt rather than actually perceived.
Fancy is superficial and comparatively short-sighted; imagination is penetrative and far-sighted, bringing together things widely sundered, apparently diverse and opposite.
The one object of supreme interest to him is the development of the soul, and his penetrative insight revealed to him the power to love as the paramount fact in that development.
Imagination penetrative is concerned not with the combining but apprehending of things.
This knowledge, this intuitive and penetrative perception, is still one of the forms, the highest, of imagination, but there is no combination of images here.
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