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noun

Imagery n.

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." "In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery."

Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance. "What can thy imagery of sorrow mean?"

The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. "The imagery of a melancholic fancy."

Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. "I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery."

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Etymology of 'Imagery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imagery" Quotes from Famous Books

... than those of Bembo—perhaps because their authors possessed greater poetical talent. Tito, the father, experienced the same feelings for the beautiful duchess as did his genial son Ercole, and he expressed them in the same poetical forms and imagery. This very similarity indicates that their devotion was merely aesthetic. Tito sang of a rose which Lucretia had sent him, but his son excelled him in an epigram on the Rose of Lucretia, which could hardly have been the same ...

— Lucretia Borgia - According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day • Ferdinand Gregorovius

... seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia, "That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad; whereby the imagery doth appear in figure: whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs." Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to such friends as are able to give a man counsel (they indeed are best); ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

... his metal should any other man assail him, that men of honor were moved at the sight like artists before a glorious picture; for noble sentiments ring as loudly in the soul from living incarnations as from the imagery of art. ...

— The Alkahest • Honore de Balzac

... for all men skilled in her traditions: to the schools of craftsmen the sign meant further their craft's noblesse, and pure descent from the divinely-terrestrial skill of Daedalus, the labyrinth-builder, and the first sculptor of imagery pathetic[48] with human ...

— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

... material, are represented with a singular equality of development. There is nothing here of Wyatt's floundering prosody, nothing of the well-intentioned doggerel in which Surrey himself indulges and in which his pupils simply revel. The cadences of the verse are perfect, the imagery fresh and sharp, the presentation of nature singularly original, when it is compared with the battered copies of the poets with whom Sackville must have been most familiar, the followers of Chaucer from Occleve to Hawes. Even the general plan of the poem—the weakest part of nearly all poems ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

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