It Is He Alone Who Suggests That Kindly Persuasion May Achieve More Than The Use Of A Spur, 'if You Give

It is he alone who suggests that kindly persuasion may achieve more than the use of a spur, 'if you give a good horse the rein and let her run, she’ll not stumble’

Shakespeares Imagery And What It Tells Us (1923)

by Spurgeon, Caroline. F.

His interest in the image is largely psychological, for he sees in this picture of a river overbearing its boundaries a perfect analogy to the result of stress or rush of emotion in men, as when Brabantio, distraught on hearing Desdemona has left him for Othello, cries to the duke: my particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o’erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

Without a basis of the dreadful, there is no perfect rapture. It is in part through the sorrow of life, growing out of dark events, that this basis of awe and solemn darkness slowly accumulates.

The Imagery of Thomas De Quincy's Impassioned Prose - Dwyer (1965)

so we find Bacon writing that philosophy as a study is not idle, because all professions are served from it. ‘For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the earth and putting of new mould about the roots that must work it.' Or again, later, he says, ‘Notwithstanding, to stir the earth a little about the roots of this science … as we have done of the rest . . . ’

------“I think this film is pretty in a generic way. Some of the best dialogue came through without any words, and that felt really classic to me.”

In the act of thinking anything, metonymies, metaphors, anecdotes, illustrations historical or fantastic, start up in his mind, become incorporate with his primary thought, and are in fact, its language. A study of the imagery is thus a stepping-stone to the study of the thought. Metaphor and symbol are the language of poetry.

The Imagery of Thomas De Quincy's Impassioned Prose - Dwyer (1965)