work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7547,"",Reading,2013-07-16 19:39:28 UTC,"Like that bird on yonder spray, the imagination seems to be perpetually ready to take wing. Hurried with incessant rapidity by the vortex of blood and animal spirits, one undulation makes an impression, which is immediately effaced by another; the soul pursues it, but often in vain: she must wait to bewail the loss of what she did not quickly lay hold of; and thus it is that the imagination, true image of time, is incessantly destroyed and renewed.
(pp. 33-4)",,21822,"","""Hurried with incessant rapidity by the vortex of blood and animal spirits, one undulation makes an impression, which is immediately effaced by another; the soul pursues it, but often in vain: she must wait to bewail the loss of what she did not quickly lay hold of; and thus it is that the imagination, true image of time, is incessantly destroyed and renewed.""","",2013-07-16 19:39:28 UTC,""
7547,"",Reading,2013-07-16 19:41:14 UTC,"Such is the chaos, such the rapid and continual succession of our ideas; they drive one another successively, as one wave impels another; so that it the imagination does not employ a part of its muscles, poised as it were in an equilibrium upon the strings of the brain, so as to sustain itself some time on a fleeting object, and to avoid falling upon another, which it is not yet proper time to contemplate, it will never be worthy of the beautiful name judgment. It will give a lively expression of what it has felt; it will form orators, musicians, painters, poets, but not one philosopher. On the contrary, if from our infancy the imagination be accustomed to bridle itself; not to give way to its own impetuousity, which forms nothing but splendid enthusiasts; to stop, to contain its ideas, and to revolve them in every sense, in order to view all the appearances of an object: then the imagination ready to judge, will embrace by reasoning the greatest sphere of objects, and its vivacity, which is always a good omen in children, and only needs the regulation of study and exercise, will become a clear-sighted penetration, without which we can make little progress.
(p. 34)",,21823,"","""Such is the chaos, such the rapid and continual succession of our ideas; they drive one another successively, as one wave impels another; so that it the imagination does not employ a part of its muscles, poised as it were in an equilibrium upon the strings of the brain, so as to sustain itself some time on a fleeting object, and to avoid falling upon another, which it is not yet proper time to contemplate, it will never be worthy of the beautiful name judgment.""","",2013-07-16 19:41:14 UTC,""