WorkGermaine de Staël

De l'influence des passions [On the Influence of the Passions]

InferredFuller quotes this passage at length and attributes it to de Staël (abbreviated as 'Mad. The passage on passion-through-imagination is characteristic of de Staël's treatise on the passions (Lausanne, 1796). Fuller immediately contrasts de Staël's view with Byron's.

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Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

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“Passion, when we contemplate it through the medium of imagination, is like a ray of light transmitted through a prism; we can calmly and with undazzled eye, study its complicate nature and analyze its variety of tints but passion brought home to us in reality, through our own feelings and experience, is like the same ray transmitted through a lens _ blinding, burning, consuming, where it falls”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller quotes this passage at length and attributes it to de Staël (abbreviated as 'Mad. The passage on passion-through-imagination is characteristic of de Staël's treatise on the passions (Lausanne, 1796). Fuller immediately contrasts de Staël's view with Byron's.

Fuller quotes this passage at length and attributes it to de Staël (abbreviated as 'Mad.