It is nevertheless evident, that however suggestive the work or picture may be,
it cannot have effect unless we are ourselves both watchful of its very hint, and capable of understanding and carrying it out, and although I
think that this power of continuing or accepting the direction of feeling given
is less a peculiar gift, like that of the original seizing, than a faculty
dependent on attention, and improvable by cultivation; yet, to a certain extent,
the imaginative work will not,
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some corresponding power; not but that there is an intense enjoyment in minds of
feeble yet light conception in the help and food they get from those of stronger
thought; but a certain imaginative susceptibility is at any rate necessary, and
above all things, earnestness and feeling, so that assuredly a work of high
conceptive dignity will be always incomprehensible and valueless except in those
who go to it in earnest and give it time; and this is peculiarly the case when
the imagination acts not merely on the immediate subject,
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fanciful and peculiar character to prominent objects, as we have just seen, but busies itself throughout in expressing occult and far-sought sympathies in every
minor detail, of which action the most sublime instances are found in the works
of Tintoret, whose intensity of imagination is such that there is not the commonest subject to
which he will not attach a range of suggestiveness almost limitless, nor a
stone, leaf, or shadow, nor anything so small, but he will give it meaning and
oracular voice.
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