...novelty is past, we find to our cost that, instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of...We have let go a dream, in quest of an unattainable substance. How cruelly this operates upon the mind, to have its free conceptions thus cramped and pressed...

...seemed to embody and realise conceptions which had hitherto assumed no distinct shape," but that " when the novelty is past, we find to our cost that...a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood." If that is true of Shakespeare, the greatest of dramatic poets, how far is it from the impression which...

...Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation' by which he meant their unfitness: When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh...

...to embody and realize conceptions which had hitherto assumed no distinct shape. But dearly do we pay all our life after for this juvenile pleasure, this...novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh...

...to embody and realize conceptions which had hitherto assumed no distinct shape. But dearly do we pay all our life after for this juvenile pleasure, this...novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh...

...immediate, daily, political concern. (15) Thus, while Charles Lamb would bemoan that the Gothic stage has "materialised and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood" (Poems 222; also quoted in Richardson, Mental 2-3), playwrights like Byron and Shelley would see as...

...performed is pleasurable, "but dearly do we pay all our life afterwards for this juvenile pleasure. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that, instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh...

...to embody and realise conceptions which had hitherto assumed no distinct shape. But dearly do we pay all our life after for this juvenile pleasure, this...we have only materialised and brought down a fine image to the standard of flesh and blood. We have let go a dream, in quest of an unattainable substance....

...conflict between imagination freed by abstraction and imagination circumscribed by concretization: 'instead of realising an idea, we have only materialised...brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood'.7 Both Lamb and Mallarmé make the link between the protagonist's 'solitary musings' and those...

...to embody and realize conceptions which had hitherto assumed no distinct shape. But dearly do we pay all our life after for this juvenile pleasure, this...novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh...