Paris and Helen were never idealised like Launcelot and Guinevere, or Tristram and Iseult.

How you were right in telling me that I idealise the people, and that they are as corrupt as the great world, and, moreover, without the curb of culture.

No doubt she has idealised her hero somewhat, but she does not seem to have exaggerated the extraordinary adventures of the young African chief.

He gave Ali the half of his own victims, and their friendship and Ali's devotion to his master were idealised and made sweeter for the gift.

No, we do not lie, we 'idealise.' ...

The philanthropist will often idealise man in the abstract and hate his neighbour at the back door, but that was not Swift's way.

I have known many African tribes between Dahomey and Zululand too well to idealise them into "the noble savage.

The word "idealise," which is the more commonly used, has unfortunately two meanings, a true and a false; and, again unfortunately, the false prevails in vulgar use.

To "idealise" in the true sense is to disengage an "idea" of all that is trivial or impertinent or transient or disturbing, and present it to men in its clearest outline, so that its own proper form shines in on the intelligence, as you would wipe away from a discovered statue all stains or accretions of mud or moss or fungus, to release and reveal its true beauty.

This is to "idealise" in the right sense of the word.

And under the force of this tradition we idealise the rugged and unmanageable, we find something heroic in rough clothes and hands, in bad manners, insensitive behaviour, and unsociableness.

It will almost certainly happenit can almost certainly be prophesiedthat in this saturnalia of sophistry there will at some time or other arise a sophist who desires to idealise cowardice.

It was this which made him seek to idealise the actual, and to actualise the Ideal.

Without striving to idealise his models, the sculptor has expressed in both the Christian conception of heroism, fearless in the face of danger, and sustained by faith.

He was not careful to select his models, or to idealise their type.

To idealise the sensualities of the external universe, to achieve for colour what the Florentines had done for form, to invest the worldly grandeur of human life at one of its most gorgeous epochs with the dignity of the highest art, was what these great artists were called on to accomplish.

The vacancy of their expression proves the degradation of an art that had ceased to idealise anything beyond a faultless body.

" "The antique world knew how to idealise, and if they delighted in the outward form, they did not leave it gross and vile as we do when we touch it; they raised it, they invested it with a sense of aloofness that we know not of.

Flesh or spirit, idealise one or both, and I will accept them.

Medwin's Biography and Mrs. Shelley's Memorials are worthless, because they attempt to idealise and deify the poet; and then there is The Real Shelley, which is like a tedious legal cross-examination of a highly imaginative and sensitive creature by a shrewd and boisterous barrister.

The secondary I consider as an echo of the former; it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still, at all events, it struggles to idealise and to unify.

And yet, although we know it to be a mere delusion, we all idealise and idolise our childhood.

I have no wish to idealise my subject unduly, but it is clear to me, and I hope I have made it clear to others, that Father Payne was a man who had a very definite theory of life and faith, and who at all events lived sincerely and even passionately in the light of his beliefs.

During this time he by no means troubled himself about the domestic happiness that he felt he had missed, though he looked forward with fresh interest to the time when his intelligent little daughters would be companions for him, and began, half unconsciously, to idealise the character of his late wife, as if her death had cost him a true companionas if, in fact, it had not made him much nobler and far happier.

de Staël; presumed to be an idealised picture of herself.