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"Idealise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... themselves; the boy's heart craves a hero, and the Johnny or Frank of the realistic story-book, the little boy like himself, is not in this sense a hero." This passage, referring to the stories themselves, might be applied to their illustration with hardly less force. To idealise is the normal impulse of a child. True that it can "make believe" from the most rudimentary hints, but it is much easier to do so if something not too actual is the groundwork. Figures which delight children are never wholly symbolic, ...
— Children's Books and Their Illustrators • Gleeson White
... nature's endowment: beauty of mind knit to beauty of body, and all informed by a living spirit of affection, so that his presence was a benediction, and a matter for thanksgiving that God had made men after this manner. So to speak of him is perhaps to idealise him; but one can only idealise that which suggests the ideal, and at the least he had a more perfect participation in the ideal than falls to the general ...
— The War on All Fronts: England's Effort - Letters to an American Friend • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... of such intimacy as love? How can you idealise it? Love is not possible to the artist ...
— Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris |
Words linked to "Idealise" : see, glamourise, idealize, consider, reckon, dream up, think of, think up, regard, glamorize, romanticize, concoct, idealisation, ideal, view, hatch, deify, romanticise |
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