Sec. 1. Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence, but only
a habit or mode of the faculty. 192
Sec. 2. The ambiguity of conception. 192
Sec. 3. Is not in itself capable of adding to the charm of fair
things. 193
Sec. 4. But gives to the imagination its regardant power over them. 194
Sec. 5. The third office of fancy distinguished from imagination
contemplative. 195
Sec. 6. Various instances. 197
Sec. 7. Morbid or nervous fancy. 200
Sec. 8. The action of contemplative imagination is not to be expressed
by art. 201
Sec. 9. Except under narrow limits.--1st. Abstract rendering of
form without color. 201
Sec. 10. Of color without form. 202
Sec. 11. Or of both without texture. 202
Sec. 12. Abstraction or typical representation of animal form. 203
Sec. 13. Either when it is symbolically used. 204
Sec. 14. Or in architectural decoration. 205
Sec. 15. Exception in delicate and superimposed ornament. 206
Sec. 16. Abstraction necessary from imperfection of materials. 206
Sec. 17. Abstractions of things capable of varied accident are not
imaginative. 207
Sec. 18. Yet sometimes valuable. 207
Sec. 19. Exaggeration. Its laws and limits. First, in scale of
representation. 208
Sec. 20. Secondly, of things capable of variety of scale. 209
Sec. 21. Thirdly, necessary in expression of characteristic features on
diminished scale. 210
Sec. 22. Recapitulation. 211
CHAPTER V.--Of the Superhuman Ideal.
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