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There is no idealizer like unavailing regret, all the more if it be a regret of fancy as much as of real feeling.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

Sorrow, the great idealizer, had had the portrait of Beatrice on her easel for years, and every touch of her pencil transfigured the woman more and more into the glorified saint.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

She is always entertaining, and the most romantic idealizer of women would not expect frivolity in one of her age and would not charge it to strong-mindedness that she is sedate....

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted

This high-minded idealizer of friendship quarrels with every man who seeks to extricate him from the consequences of his own imprudence.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John

The theory that art imitates nature has sometimes been grounded upon and found sustenance in this illusion, as also its variant, more easily to be defended, which makes art the idealizer of nature.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto