Art: its constitution and capacities, popularly considered, being the 1st of 2 lectures, on the use and abuse of art1854 |
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Abuse æsthetic element amidst amongst Andante Apollo Architecture Aristotle artistic Beethoven belongs Belvidere beneath bismuth child of Nature Claude colour copy Cuyp dare Delaroche discriminate Edinburgh Review eloquence English expressive element fac-simile fact feeling figure gaze give Gothic Greek hand harmony Haydn heaven human ideal imitation individual instance instinct Lamp of Beauty Laocoon Lecture less light look Lord Bacon Manichee marble matter mean Michael Angelo mind Modern Painters monstrifications Mozart Music mysterious natural objects never noble notes ornament ovolo Painting palace passage Pergolese perhaps picture poet poetic Pre-Raffaellite principle qualities question Raffaelle ribands rience Ruskin Salvator Rosa scarce School of Athens Sculpture seems sense shadow shew simple Sistine Chapel sort sounds speak spirit statue sublime suppose sweet technicalities thing thought tion touch truth tufa Turner unfluted Vitruvius whilst wonder words
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Page 94 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 38 - That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 43 - And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 12 - They should go to nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning; rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing.
Page 94 - Whistling through -hollows of this vaulted aisle: We'll listen — Leo. Hark! Aim. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Page 89 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land...
Page 60 - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 94 - Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death. — 'Tis dreadful .' How reverend is the face of this tall pile; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and...
Page 10 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 95 - And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons