It has the ideality which is the salt that keeps a story sweet for many a year. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Workers of the South] Reference
More particularly do we illustrate the ideality of. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
If ever I marry, it is to find an asylum for ideality. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
What we mean, therefore, by the subjectivity or ideality of the. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
Behind and above there was no loftiness of ideality or of veneration. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Winckelmann called it back to simplicity, to self-restraint, to ideality. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Such romance, such ideality, such universality, as it were, she had never met. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
The reason of this insipidity is, that the ideality aimed at is all on the outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
Plato seems to say that ideality is not, as a matter of fact, the essence of objects. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
"It bears the stamp of ideality, and recalls the noblest remaining examples of Greek art.". From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
Love of beauty the poet's guide in disentangling ideality from the accidents of things. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
If it be not a record of actual conversation, it is an embodiment of a most wonderful ideality. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
The ideality and universality of internationalism itself are expressions of the philosophic spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
In them are reflected the happiness, the poetry, the love of novelty, and the ideality of the time. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
There is such a thing as ideality in vision and a practical hand to make good the picture of the mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox] Reference
With the allegories of Bunyan, we leave ideality behind us as a characteristic feature of English fiction. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
But thus much ideality must be characteristic of love, it seems obvious, before it can be spiritually creative. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
A spirit of lofty ideality pervades the work of Sir Philip Sidney, which is expressive of the aspirations of his time. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
All this gives a pleasure and an ideality, hitherto unthought of, to the business of providing sustenance for my family. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Elevation and subtlety of ideas naturally follow these causes, they are another natural growth of the simple ideality of conception. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The forehead was rather low, prominent above the eyebrows, and with keen, hollow temples, but deficient both in comprehensiveness and ideality. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Wealth and ideality -- supposed to be possessed by all who are attracted hither -- do not raise a man above material wants or fail to multiply them. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
A characteristic autobiographical love poem of this type, is that of Francis Thompson, who asserts the ideality of the poet's affection in his reference to. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Hence the poet who gives us a representation of things is not obscuring them, but is doing us a service by simplifying them, and so making their ideality clearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Indeed, the great regulative force of every human spirit is not so much the present and the past -- present opportunity and past experience -- as future ideality. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
These people seem to strike the happy medium between the ideality and pride given by Jupiter, and the more selfish love nature given when the line rises from Saturn. From Wordnik.com. [Palmistry for All] Reference
In her early days of attractiveness, none who would have sought her could meet the high requirements of her ideality; she never saw her hero, -- and so never married. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
In these ways she becomes a kind of revivification of the spirit of Watteau, who has made perfect, for us all, what is perfect in the classicized ideality of experience. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
His ideality and refinement would be thrown away in such positions, and even with the best will in the world he would be completely out of harmony with his surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [Palmistry for All] Reference
Oh! how, bustled about amidst a crowd of unsympathising strangers, to whom our domestic life is only an ideality, I longed for the quiet and charm and love of an English home!. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
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