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IMAGINATION IMITATION

Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.
Hood—Miss Kilmansegg. Her Christening.

Delphinum appingit sylvis, in fluctibus aprura.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, and a
boar in the waves.
Horace—ArsPoetica. XXX.


Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a
des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.
He who has imagination without learning
has wings but no feet.
Joubert.


These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of
poetry, without the inspiration.
Junius—Letter VII f. To Sir W. Draper.
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I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold
My beautiful castles in Spain!
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 | text = <poem>His imagination resembled the wings of an
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Macaulay—On John Dryden. (1828)
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 | text = <poem>C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon I.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L.
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This is the very coinage of your brain:
This bodiless creation ecstasy.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 137.


This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a
foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures,
shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,
revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of
memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater,
and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 67.


The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1.
L.7.


And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1.
L. 14.


The best in this kind are but shadows; and
the worst are no worse, if imagination amend
them.
Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1.
L. 213.
Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou
com'st:
Suppose the singing birds musicians;
The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence
strew'd;
The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
Than a delightful measure or a dance.
Richard II. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 286.


Castles in Spain.
Storer—Peter the Cruel. P. 280, ascribes the
origin of this phrase to the time of Don
Enrique of Spain, on account of his favors
being lavishly bestowed before they wereearned. Mercure Francois. (1616) Given
as source by Littre.
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It is only in France that one builds castles in
Spain.
Mme. de Villars, when made dame d'honneur to the wife of Philip V, of Spain,
grandson of Louis XIV. of France.

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I build nought els but castles in the ayre.
Thos. Watson—Poems. Arber's reprint.
P. 82. See also Lyly—Mother Bombie.
Act V. Sc. 3.
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But thou, that did'st appear so fair
To fond imagination,
Dost rival in the light of day
Her delicate creation.
Wordsworth—Yarrow Visited.
 IMITATION
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L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione
del bene 6 sempre inferiore.
He who imitates what is evil always goes
beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls
short.
Guicciardini—Storia d' Italia.


Respicere exemplar vitse morumque jubebo
Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate
well, to look closely into life and manners,
and thereby to learn to express them with
truth.
Horace—Ars Poetica. CCCXVII.


Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,
Iule ceratis ope Daedalea
Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus
Nomina ponto.
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar,
O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened
on with wax, and is sure to give his name
to a glassy sea.
Horace—Carmina. IV. 2. 1.
 Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.
We are all easily taught to imitate what
is base and depraved.
Juvenal—Satires. XIV. 40.