...far too easy to write, with Carlyle " All real art is the disimprisonment of the soul of fact1 " or " The infinite is made to blend itself with the finite...stand visible, and, as it were, attainable there. Of this sort are all true works of art ; in this (if we know a work of art from the daub of artifice)...

...his symbols there is some audible, almost sensable revelation of the Infinite; in Carlyle's phrase, " the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite,...stand visible, and, as it were, attainable there." First, I think, in Aglavaine and Selysette is there real descent to earth, a real adumbration of a...

...incorporated therewith. In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation...guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. He everywhere finds himself encompassed with Symbols, recognized as such or not recognized : the Universe...

...incorporated therewith. In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation...guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. He everywhere finds himself encompassed with Symbols, recognised as such or not recognised: the Universe...

...he writes elsewhere : " In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation...to stand visible, and as it were attainable there." What Arthur Symons says of the relation of symbolism and literature we may say of symbolism and a religion...

...by silence and by speech acting together comes a double signification." "In a symbol proper there is some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the...Finite to stand visible and, as it were, attainable there".1 As a writer2 on Symbolism says:—" The minds of all men, especially of the uneducated, yearn...

...the haze needs the finite glow; and so the two together constitute a symbol in Carlyle's view of it: "the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there."2* When Virginia Woolf speaks of the aim of modern fiction as the expression of life seen as...

...the word its full value: "In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation...stand visible, and as it were, attainable there." It is in such a sense as this that the word Symbolism has been used to describe a movement which, during...

...incorporated therewith. In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation...guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. He everywhere finds himself encompassed with Symbols, recognised as such or not recognised: the Universe...

...loosening of that very concept: In the Symbol proper, what we call a Symbol, there is ever more or less distinctly and directly some embodiment and revelation...Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there.29 Therefore it is no surprise to find Carlyle on the same page stating with reference to 'the...