| Paul Fussell - 1982 - 257 trang
...Vista. He would agree with Johnson that "the use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." Language under the dominion of strong imagination is the thing that cruelly misleads the Italian press... | |
| Lawrence O. Koch - 1988 - 356 trang
...Eckstine, and Others (Late 1942-Fall 1944) The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson — Piozzi's Johnsonia Back in "The Apple" Bird resumed his experiments. He shuttled... | |
| Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 trang
...writes to Mrs. Thrale from Skye, "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are" (Letters 1:359). But nostalgia is very much an eighteenth-century invention, born perhaps of the twin... | |
| David Hatcher Childress - 1992 - 596 trang
...Lost Megaliths of the Pacific Coast The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they as are. — Samuel Johnson Crossing over the border from Honduras into Guatemala, I looked around at... | |
| J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 trang
...rehearsed in order to puncture them: The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them...dangerous, and I am now content with knowing that by a Scrambling up a rock, I shall only see other rocks, and a wider circuit of barren desolation. Of... | |
| Donald Robert DeGlopper - 1995 - 314 trang
...Ya-k'ou Yuan-lin as* Wtt, itm The use of travelling is to regulate the imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. —Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale Just about the time when . . . one felt he had reached a conclusion,... | |
| C. Harry Eggleton, Judy C. Rice - 1996 - 434 trang
...playfulness of the exercise.) OVERVIEW The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson ( 1 709- 1 784) This approach to Goal Clarity is pure fun. In 1976, Henry Mintzberg... | |
| Bruce Redford - 1996 - 156 trang
...experience into a resonant maxim: "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."1 Canny as he was about the social imperatives behind the Grand Tour — "A man who has not been... | |
| Bill Mullen - 1999 - 260 trang
...across the Sahara and into black Africa in a Volkswagen camper considering, in Samuel Johnson's words, "instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."26 Burns's and Wright's falling out as comrades through their vexed relationship to an increasingly... | |
| Amy B. Trubek - 2000 - 196 trang
...subscribers to Samuel Johnson's view that "the use of travelling, is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are,"9 have themselves recendy begun to reconsider their empiricist orientation. As James's comments... | |
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