...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being;...than all these lies Humour, the ruling quality with Richter; as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his whole being. He is a humorist from...

...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant : an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling ; brooding over the abysses of Being;...with orient pearl. But deeper than all these lies Humor, the ruling quality with Richter ; as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his...

...poetic imagination, Carlyle writes in this essay: "He has ... an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being;...light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror . . ."S1 And, with particular reference to Jean Paul's dreams: ". . . many times he exhibits an imagination...