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“To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.”

Reality Memories Attention Minutes Paint Fancy

Book:The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

Source: The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.”

“We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.”

People Knows Men Facts Shows Water Memories Sea Men And Women Rivers Casts Fishes Intuition Boat Fancy Lakes Fishing Peculiar

Author:William Cowper Prime

“Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.”

Looks Past Memories Fancy

Book:Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].

Source: Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].

“If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!”

Ifs Feels Should Reason Would Be Spiritual Law Understanding Memories Hell Equal Conscious Madness Fancy Anarchy Our Memories Spiritual Beings

Author:John Milton

“Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.”

Heart Age Young Grows Memories Aging Wit Old Age Fancy

Author:Jean Paul

“Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded: nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the works of his predecessors.”

People May Reason Artist Individual Memories Genius Equal Seasons Maturity Fancy Anticipate Predecessors

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire