I have already pointed out in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts ; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each production is diminished. No longer able to soar to what is great, they cultivate what is pretty and... Bentley's Miscellany - Page 304edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1840 - 546 pages
...analogous to what I have already pointed out in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts ; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each production is diminished. No longer able to soar to what is great, they cultivate what is pretty and elegant ; and appearance... | |
| Methodist Church - 1848 - 660 pages
...deficiency, not in any lack of genius, but in the peculiar influence of democratic institutions : " the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each production is diminished ; no longer able, to soar to what is great, they cultivate what is pretty and elegant, and appearance... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...analogous to what I have already pointed cut in the useful arts ther. takes place in the fine arts; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each production is diminished. No longer able to soar to wh;it is great, they cultivate what is pretty and elegant; and appearance... | |
| American literature - 1854 - 598 pages
...discouragements elsewhere. De Tocqueville, indeed, insists that a democratic society will be hkely to produce rather a great number of middling works...general condition of the people whose tendencies he analyzed with so much philosophical acumen | twenty years ngo. The increase of wealth since that time... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...consumers become more scarce. The productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of eacli production is diminished." This oracular writer, whose...general condition of the people whose tendencies he analyzed with so much philosophiert1 acumen twenty years ago. The increase of wealth since that time... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1862 - 526 pages
...analogous to what I have already pointed out in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts ; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each production is diminished. No longer able to soar to what is great, they cultivate what is pretty and elegant ; and appearance... | |
| Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pages
...analogous to what 1 have already pointed out in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts ; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each production is diminished. No longer able to soar to what is great, they cultivate what is pretty and elegant ; and appearance... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 454 pages
...analogous to what I have already pointed out in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts ; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each production is diminished. No longer able to soar to what is great, they cultivate what is pretty and elegant ; and appearance... | |
| Howard L. Parsons - Philosophy - 1979 - 224 pages
...quantity of imperfect commodities. . . Something analogous. . . then takes place in the fine arts; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each production is diminished.1 Tocqueville put his finger on the long-standing problem of the man who aspires to culture... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Political Science - 1980 - 402 pages
...analogous to what I have already pointed out in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each production is diminished. No longer able to soar to what is great, they cultivate what is pretty and elegant, and appearance... | |
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