Æsthetics: Or, The Science of Beauty1872 - 268 páginas |
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action æsthetical amid animal apprehension arch architecture artist becomes belong building character Christian church color complete connection cornice creative dignity distinct dwelling edifice effect emotion enjoyment entablature everywhere existence expression fact faculties feeling forces fulness furnish gardening gives rise Gothic architecture Grecian heart higher human ical ideal imagination important impression impulse intel intellect intuition JOHN BASCOM judgment knowledge labor landscape law of form LECTURE LECTURE XII lence less light limited lower mark material ment method Milan Cathedral mind moral nature novelty NUDE ART object organic ornament painting Parthenon passion perception perfect physical plant pleasure poetry present principle propriety reached reason reference reflex action relations render Romanesque roof sculpture seen sense shrubs spirit stone sublime surface symbols taste things thought tion transept trinsically true truth ture uncon unity utility utter variety virtue wall wholly WOOLWORTH
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Página 20 - I HATE the dreadful hollow behind the little wood, Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath, The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood, And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers 'Death.
Página 30 - We are not prepared for a high ideal of manly beauty till we possess a high idea of man, — till, having brought him up in the worth of character, we show him in feature and* act for that which he is. We need not stop to insist, that to enthrone the physical in man, either in the baser form of a rounded and lusty contour, or in the nobler form of bone and- sinew, is to overlook the spiritual, — to sink it in the simply organic, — is to make men, not a little lower than the angels...
Página 20 - Now, Lycidas, the Shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Página 20 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Página 20 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Página 117 - Call it by any name rather than this, but its best and truest is Obedience. Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus, while a measure of...
Página 124 - The question is not alone concerning the purity of the statue, of the emotions which it was designed to arouse, but also of the emotions which it may arouse. If to the pure all things are pure, to the impure all things are impure, and at the breach in the law of propriety which we make in the name of virtue, there will troop in the lascivious imagery of an uneasy, omnipresent passion. It is a pretty fiction of poetry to speak of the nudity of art as " clothed on with chastity " ; but we may well...
Página 8 - ... received by us. Later we shall discuss the principles which determine its presence or absence, and as a practical application of the truths so established, we shall treat briefly of those arts, termed fine arts, in which the principles of a'Sthetics find fullest employment...