Imbody

Ever as I sang, the veil was uplifted; ever as I sang, the signs of life grew; till, when the eyes dawned upon me, it was with that sunrise of splendour which my feeble song attempted to re-imbody. ❋ Unknown (1905)

But the tendency of life in the open air is to make the soul imbody and imbrute, and after a while one begins to think scholarship a disease, or, at any rate, a bad habit; and the Scythian nomad, or, if you choose, the Texan cowboy, seems to be the normal, healthy type. ❋ Unknown (1877)

DEAR SIR, -- It is now about five months since you expressed to me a wish that I might be induced to imbody, in a few pages, my views on the peculiar interest I attached -- as you had been informed by a common friend -- to the most popular German novel of the age, Gustav Freytag's ❋ Gustav Freytag (1855)

We feel that great events are being enacted; that greater still are in preparation; and we long for an epic, a world-moulding epic, to imbody and depict them. ❋ Gustav Freytag (1855)

But the Active Intellect, the creative power, -- the power to put these shapes and images in art, to imbody the indefinite, and render perfect, is his alone. ❋ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844)

Intellect, the creative power, — the power to put these shapes and images in art, to imbody the indefinite, and render perfect, is his alone. ❋ Unknown (1839)

In that moment the nature of the man grew active, and the contrast between the two would claim the art of the painter to imbody to the eye, and the strong imagination, only, could depict it to the mind of one not beholding it. ❋ Unknown (1835)

The evidence is closed -- the testimony now irrefutable -- and imagination, however audacious in her own province, only ventures to imbody and model those features of ❋ Unknown (1835)

Experiment Invites me to Represent to you, that Though there were either Saline, or Sulphureous, or Terrestrial Portions of Matter, whose parts were so small, so firmly united together, or of a figure so fit to make them cohere to one another, (as we see that in quicksilver broken into little Globes, the Parts brought to touch one another do immediately re-imbody) that neither the Fire, nor the usual ❋ Robert Boyle (1659)