 | Cynthia Wall - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 331 pages
...and dyes."49 A little more peculiarly, Sir Thomas Pope Blount declares, in De re poetica (1694), that "imagination in a Poet is a Faculty so wild and lawless,...it must have Clogs tied to it, lest it out-run the Judgment."50 As with the Compendium's (and Aristotle's) idea that a certain amount of ekphrasis provides... | |
 | F. Th Visser - English language - 1963 - 688 pages
...seems to be redundant). | 1664 Dryden, Rival Ladies (Wks. ed. Scott/ Saintsb. Vol. II) Dedic. 138, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment (Söderl.). | 1667 Milton, PL 7, 545, And govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee. | 1671... | |
 | F. Th Visser - English language - 1966 - 688 pages
...seems to be redundant). | 1664 Dryden, Rival Ladies (Wks. ed. Scott/ Saintsb. Vol. II) Dedic. 138, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment (Söderl.). | 1667 Milton, PL 7, 546, And govern well thy appetite, least sin Surprise thee. | 1671... | |
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For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. 
