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... Italian Art . - Wilkie's story of the Geronimite . - Further illustration of the love of illusion in Greek and other forms of Art . - What is peculiar to the Greeks . - Plato's manner of stating critically the doubt as to the truth of ...
... Italian Art . - Wilkie's story of the Geronimite . - Further illustration of the love of illusion in Greek and other forms of Art . - What is peculiar to the Greeks . - Plato's manner of stating critically the doubt as to the truth of ...
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... Italy.- Catherine de Vivonne - her education - and how she became mistress of the Hôtel Rambouillet . - Origin of the Précieuses.— On mistakes committed about them . - Molière , and his real object with regard to them . - The false ...
... Italy.- Catherine de Vivonne - her education - and how she became mistress of the Hôtel Rambouillet . - Origin of the Précieuses.— On mistakes committed about them . - Molière , and his real object with regard to them . - The false ...
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... Italian painter , who probably would have been afraid of the linen's hurting the colouring of the flesh , and have kept it down of a low tint ... His Christ I consider as one of the finest figures ever invented ; it is most correctly ...
... Italian painter , who probably would have been afraid of the linen's hurting the colouring of the flesh , and have kept it down of a low tint ... His Christ I consider as one of the finest figures ever invented ; it is most correctly ...
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... It will be convenient to glance in succession at the critical schools of Greece , Italy , Spain , France , Germany , and England . And from this survey , VOL . I. H divisions . V. CHAPTER it will be seen that if criticism has.
... It will be convenient to glance in succession at the critical schools of Greece , Italy , Spain , France , Germany , and England . And from this survey , VOL . I. H divisions . V. CHAPTER it will be seen that if criticism has.
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... Italian art , not only in its earlier stages , but even in its period of perfect development , we find the same pheno- menon . I might quote whole pages from Vasari to show how an artist and a critic of the Cinque Cento thought of art ...
... Italian art , not only in its earlier stages , but even in its period of perfect development , we find the same pheno- menon . I might quote whole pages from Vasari to show how an artist and a critic of the Cinque Cento thought of art ...
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Page 184 - Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar; it reproduces all that it represents, and the impersonations clothed in its Elysian light stand thenceforward in the minds of those who have once contemplated them as memorials of that gentle and exalted content which extends itself over all thoughts and actions with which it coexists.
Page 320 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 246 - Dear child ! dear girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year ; And worshipp'st at the temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Page 318 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and...
Page 318 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 320 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 324 - It is impossible to read the compositions of the most celebrated writers of the present day without being startled with the electric life which burns within their words. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of human nature with a comprehensive and all-penetrating spirit, and they are themselves perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations; for it is less their spirit than the 233 spirit of the age.
Page 126 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Page 279 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Page 325 - Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.