Of many thingsEstes and Lauriat, 1894 - Aesthetics |
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... passage as it occurs . There are , in all , in the Idler three letters on painting , Nos . 76 , 79 , and 82 ; of these , the first is directed only against the imperti- nences of pretended connoisseurs , and is as notable for its ...
... passage as it occurs . There are , in all , in the Idler three letters on painting , Nos . 76 , 79 , and 82 ; of these , the first is directed only against the imperti- nences of pretended connoisseurs , and is as notable for its ...
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... passage , that the writer considers the Dutch and Italian masters as severally representative of the low and high schools ; next , that he considers the Dutch painters as excelling in a mechanical imitation , " in which the slowest ...
... passage , that the writer considers the Dutch and Italian masters as severally representative of the low and high schools ; next , that he considers the Dutch painters as excelling in a mechanical imitation , " in which the slowest ...
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... passage , we find the author's unmistakable meaning to be , that Dutch painting is history ; attending to literal truth and " minute exactness in the details of nature modified by accident . " That Italian painting is poetry , attending ...
... passage , we find the author's unmistakable meaning to be , that Dutch painting is history ; attending to literal truth and " minute exactness in the details of nature modified by accident . " That Italian painting is poetry , attending ...
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... passage . " Battlement ! " why battlement ? Because all walls have not battlements , and the addition of the term marks the castle to be not merely a prison , but a fortress . This is a curious result . Instead of finding , as we ...
... passage . " Battlement ! " why battlement ? Because all walls have not battlements , and the addition of the term marks the castle to be not merely a prison , but a fortress . This is a curious result . Instead of finding , as we ...
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... passage . Homer seems to describe a great deal of what is common ; -cookery , for instance , very care- fully in all its processes . I suppose the passage in the Iliad which , on the whole , has excited most admiration , is that which ...
... passage . Homer seems to describe a great deal of what is common ; -cookery , for instance , very care- fully in all its processes . I suppose the passage in the Iliad which , on the whole , has excited most admiration , is that which ...
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Page 172 - Dee." They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea: But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee.
Page 24 - tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead; For, surely, then I should have sight Of him I wait for day and night, With love and longings infinite.
Page 183 - Ah, why," said Ellen, sighing to herself, 'Why do not words, and kiss, and solemn pledge, And nature, that is kind in woman's breast, And reason, that in man is wise and good, And fear of Him Who is a righteous Judge, — Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that began Their springtime with one love, and that have need Of mutual pity and forgiveness sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird...
Page 67 - Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
Page 297 - The grey mist left the mountain side, The torrent showed its glistening pride; Invisible in flecke'd sky, The lark sent down her revelry; The black-bird and the speckled thrush Good-morrow gave from brake and bush; In answer cooed the cushat dove, Her notes of peace, and rest, and love.
Page 174 - For a very simple reason. They are not a pathetic fallacy at all, for they are put into the mouth of the wrong passion — a passion which never could possibly have spoken them — agonized curiosity. Ulysses wants to know the facts of the matter ; and the very last thing his mind could do at the moment would be to pause, or suggest in any wise what was not a fact.
Page 291 - ... bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main : Calm and deep peace in this wide air, These leaves that redden to the fall ; And in my heart, if calm at all, If any calm, a calm despair : Calm on the seas, and silver sleep, And waves that sway themselves in rest, And dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep. XII. Lo, as a dove when up she springs To bear thro...
Page 184 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, " She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, " She is late;" The larkspur listens, " I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers,
Page 297 - The mountain-shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Page 19 - ... general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth, and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness, so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the...