Modern Painters ...Smith, Elder, and Company, 1856 - Aesthetics |
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... becomes at once opened and simplified as soon as we have left those the only questions . For observe , our present task , according to our old plan , is merely to investigate the relative degrees of the beautiful in the art of different ...
... becomes at once opened and simplified as soon as we have left those the only questions . For observe , our present task , according to our old plan , is merely to investigate the relative degrees of the beautiful in the art of different ...
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... become a great painter ; he degrades the subjects he intended to honour , and his work is more utterly thrown away , and his rank as an artist in reality lower , than if he had devoted himself to the imitation of the simplest objects of ...
... become a great painter ; he degrades the subjects he intended to honour , and his work is more utterly thrown away , and his rank as an artist in reality lower , than if he had devoted himself to the imitation of the simplest objects of ...
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... become so when they convey a statement that they re- semble something which they do not resemble . But the beauty of the lines or colours is wholly independent of any such statement . They may be beautiful lines , though quite ...
... become so when they convey a statement that they re- semble something which they do not resemble . But the beauty of the lines or colours is wholly independent of any such statement . They may be beautiful lines , though quite ...
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... become higher in exact proportion to the degree in which they apprehend and love the beautiful . Thus , Angelico , intensely loving all spiritual beauty , will be of the highest rank ; and Paul Veronese and Correggio , intensely loving ...
... become higher in exact proportion to the degree in which they apprehend and love the beautiful . Thus , Angelico , intensely loving all spiritual beauty , will be of the highest rank ; and Paul Veronese and Correggio , intensely loving ...
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... becomes at once monstrous and morbid ; until at last he cannot faithfully represent even what he chooses to retain ; his discrimination contracts into darkness , and his fastidiousness fades into fatuity . High art , therefore ...
... becomes at once monstrous and morbid ; until at last he cannot faithfully represent even what he chooses to retain ; his discrimination contracts into darkness , and his fastidiousness fades into fatuity . High art , therefore ...
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Page 161 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
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Page 11 - I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is " the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
Page 12 - 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 162 - He listen'd, and he wept, and his bright tears Went trickling, down the golden bow he held. Thus with half-shut suffused eyes he stood, While from beneath some cumbrous boughs hard by With solemn step an awful Goddess came, And there was purport in her looks for him, Which he with eager guess began to read Perplex'd, the while melodiously he said: "How cam'st thou over the unfooted sea?
Page 204 - At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast; And, first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons flew , As in the storm the white sea-mew.