imbody
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But the Active Intellect, the creative power,--the power to put these shapes and images in art, to imbody the indefinite, and render perfect, is his alone.
From Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We feel that great events are being enacted; that greater still are in preparation; and we long for an epic, a world-moulding epic, to imbody and depict them.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
The lineaments are indeed true to nature, but no artist could catch the ever varying expression, or imbody that unrivalled grace, which threw a charm around her, more captivating even than her faultless beauty.
From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Harriet Vaughan Cheney
I have only sketched—sometimes perhaps with too fanciful a pencil, subjects of great importance, which, by being thus rendered popular, may induce abler pens to imbody them in a more permanent form.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
It is his highest praise, however, that he has imbodied this faith in a true work of art, which speaks for itself.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
She imbodied all my highest conceptions of female excellence.
From Finger Posts on the Way of Life by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Their poets imbodied in verse these favourite recitals of love and war.
From History of the Moors of Spain by M. Florian
The author seems to teach the gentle creed which Coleridge has imbodied in those familiar lines,— "He prayeth well who loveth well Both man, and bird, and beast."
From Violet: A Fairy Story by Caroline Snowden Guild
Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already imbodied.
From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald
Whatever some of the Eclectic philosophers might have asserted, Plato considered that our ideas were derived from external objects, and never contemplated the extravagant doctrine of imbodying metaphysical abstractions, or personifying intellectual ideas.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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