Part 65 (1/2)

To aggregate and to associate, to evoke and to coination_ as to the _fancy_; but either the ht together under a different law, and for a different purpose _Fancy_ does not require that the materials which she es in their constitution froh for her purpose if it be slight, limited, and evanescent Directly the reverse of these are the desires and de but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite She leaves it to _fancy_ to describe Queen Mab as coate stone On the forefinger of an alder to speak of stature, she does not tell you that her gigantic angel was as tall as Pompey's Pillar; much less that he elve cubits or twelve hundred cubits high; or that his dimensions equalled those of Teneriffe or Atlas; because these, and if they were a h, it would be the same, are bounded The expression is, 'His stature reached the sky!' the illiination_ frames a comparison,a sense of the truth of the likeness frorow--upon theless upon outline of form and feature than upon expression and effect, less upon casual and outstanding than upon inherent and internal properties[B]

_Poetical Works, Pref to Ed of 1815_, p 646, app [T & H '51]

So far as actual iination_ are limited to the materials furnished by the external world; it is re all the representations of Gods or deriffins and chian or attribute that is not presented in hule's wings and claws, but in the various features, individually, there is absolutely nothing new

But _iination_ can transcend the work of _fancy_, and coe drawn from the external world with some spiritual truth born in the es with such a spiritual truth,theination_ s in one There is the epic _iination_, the perfection of which is in Milton; and the dramatic, of which Shakspeare is the absolute master

COLERIDGE _Table Talk_ June 23, '34

_Fancy_ keeps the e prominent and clear, and works not only with it, but for it; _iination_ always uses the reater than itself, and often almost loses the object in the spiritual idea hich she has associated it, and for which alone she values it _Fancy_ flits about the surface, and is airy and playful, sooes to the heart of things, and is deep, earnest, serious, and seeks always and everywhere for essential truth _Fancy_ sets off, variegates, and decorates; _ihts and entertains; _iination_ is not only poetic or literary, but scientific, philosophical, and practical By _i not yet begun, and the inventor sees the unity and varied interactions of a machine never yet constructed, even a unity that no human eye ever can see, since when theparts, and yet all keep the unity of the inventor's thought

By _iination_ a Newton sweeps sun, planets, and stars into unity with the earth and the apple that is drawn irresistibly to its surface, and sees therand law Science, philosophy, and mechanical invention have little use for _fancy_, but the creative, penetrative power of _iination_ is to them the breath of life, and the condition of all advance and success See also FANCY; IDEA

[B] The whole discussion from which the quotation is taken is worthy of, and ell repay, careful study

IMMEDIATELY

Synonyhtway, directly, instantly, right away, this instant, forthwith, now, right off, without delay

The strong and general huressive weakening of the various words in this group _Inifies without the intervention of anything as a medium, hence without the intervention of any, even the briefest, interval or lapse of time _By and by_, which was once a synony at some (perhaps remote) future ti tierEven _i from its instantaneousness, so that we are fain to substitute _at once_, _instantly_, etc, ould orous conversational expressions in the United States

Antonyms:

after a while, by and by, hereafter, in the future, some time

IMMERSE

Synonye, sink, sube