Lectures on Art, and PoemsBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 396 páginas |
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... birth to an emotion corresponding to that which we ascribe to the beautiful . - But there is scarcely a subject on which mankind are wider at variance , than on the beauty of their own spe- cies , some preferring this , and others that ...
... birth to an emotion corresponding to that which we ascribe to the beautiful . - But there is scarcely a subject on which mankind are wider at variance , than on the beauty of their own spe- cies , some preferring this , and others that ...
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... would bow in idolatry but for a higher reverence . No ! there is no power like this of mortal birth . But against the antagonist moral , the human beauty of itself has no power , no self - sustaining life . While , 28 LECTURES ON ART .
... would bow in idolatry but for a higher reverence . No ! there is no power like this of mortal birth . But against the antagonist moral , the human beauty of itself has no power , no self - sustaining life . While , 28 LECTURES ON ART .
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... birth of his ideal offspring it was Truth that smiled upon him , that made light his travail , that blessed their birth , and , by her fond recognition , imparted to his breast her own most pure , unimpassioned emotion . But , whatever ...
... birth of his ideal offspring it was Truth that smiled upon him , that made light his travail , that blessed their birth , and , by her fond recognition , imparted to his breast her own most pure , unimpassioned emotion . But , whatever ...
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... birth . And we are still indisposed to ad- mit its entire absence in any one particular for which it was bestowed on man . An imperfect developement , especially as relating to the intellectual and moral , we know to depend , in no ...
... birth . And we are still indisposed to ad- mit its entire absence in any one particular for which it was bestowed on man . An imperfect developement , especially as relating to the intellectual and moral , we know to depend , in no ...
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... birth . No one , for example , would refer to the savages of Aus- tralia for a true specimen of what was proper or nat- ural to the human mind ; we should rather seek it , if such were the alternative , in a civilized child of five ...
... birth . No one , for example , would refer to the savages of Aus- tralia for a true specimen of what was proper or nat- ural to the human mind ; we should rather seek it , if such were the alternative , in a civilized child of five ...
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ab extra ALMAHAYA angel Artist beautiful behold Bird birth breath bright character charm clouds color conscious dark degree distinct doubt dream duction E'en earth effect emotion ence essen essential faculties fair fame fearful feel felt flower Fra Bartolomeo genius gentle gift give ground Harmony hear heart human Idea imagination impression individual instance intellect kind LAST JUDGMENT least less light living look mannerist Michael Angelo mighty mind moral mysterious nature ne'er never night o'er object ogous original outward painter passing perhaps physical picture pleasure poetic praise present principle pure purple haze Raffaelle relation seems sense shadow SONNET soul sound speak spirit stood sublime suppose sweet Sylph sympathy thee thing thou thought Thrush tion Titian toad toil true truth WASHINGTON ALLSTON ween whole wondrous words wrought youth
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Página 170 - It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over Nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, when every feature is set the other way ; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance ; the legs shake with anger, when all above is calm.* 18.
Página 169 - Devil's heartiest laugh is at a detracting witticism. Hence the phrase "devilish good" has sometimes a literal meaning. 9. The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor. 10. Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is...
Página 206 - When thou hast mark'd the dusky bed, With leaves and water-rust o'erspread, That seem'd an amber light to shed On all was shadow'd there ; " And thence, as by its murmur call'd. The current traced to where it brawl'd Beneath the noontide ray ; And there beheld the...
Página 205 - Or heard from branch of flowering thorn The song of friendly cuckoo warn The tardy-moving swain ; Hast bid the purple swallow hail ; And seen him now through ether sail, Now sweeping downward o'er the vale, And skimming now the plain ; " Then, catching with a sudden glance The bright and silver-clear expanse Of some broad river's stream, Beheld the boats adown it glide, And motion wind again the tide, Where, chain'd in ice by winter's pride, Late roll'd the heavy team :
Página 206 - Twas I to these the magick gave, That made thy heart, a willing slave, To gentle Nature bend; And taught thee how with tree and flower, And whispering gale, and dropping shower, In converse sweet to pass the hour, As with an early friend...
Página 173 - Fame does not depend on the will of any man, but Reputation may be given or taken away. Fame is the sympathy of kindred intellects, and sympathy is not a subject of willing; while Reputation, having its source in the popular voice, is a sentence which may either be uttered or suppressed at pleasure. Reputation, being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the envious and the ignorant; but Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps...
Página 273 - How vast, how dread, o'erwhelming, is the thought Of space interminable ! to the soul A circling weight that crushes into naught Her mighty faculties ! a wondrous whole, Without or parts, beginning, or an end ! How fearful, then, on...
Página 262 - I am lost," said the fiend, and he shook like a leaf; When, casting his eyes to the ground, He saw the lost pupils of Ellen with grief In the jaws of a mouse, and the sly little thief Whisk away from his sight with a bound. "I am lost...
Página 255 - Like a sailor she seem'd on a desolate shore, With nor house, nor a tree, nor a sound but the roar Of breakers high dashing around. From object to object still, still would she veer, Though nothing, alas, could she find; Like the moon, without atmosphere, brilliant and clear, Yet doom'd, like the moon, with no being to cheer The bright barren waste of her mind.
Página 256 - said the languishing maid ; "Ah, what with that frame can he do?" And she knelt to the Goddess of Secrets and prayed, When the youth passed again, and again he displayed The frame and a picture to view. " O beautiful picture ! " the fair Ellen cried, "I must see thee again or I die.