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... imitation , but creation , is the aim . . He has conceived meanly of the resources of man , who believes that the best age of production is past . ” — Emerson's Essay on " Art . " ... " Nothing is denied to well - directed labour ...
... imitation , but creation , is the aim . . He has conceived meanly of the resources of man , who believes that the best age of production is past . ” — Emerson's Essay on " Art . " ... " Nothing is denied to well - directed labour ...
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... imitation . " His few remarks are well worthy of consideration . ST . LAWRENCE " IN DAMASO . " - This church is not re- markable for the richness of its sculpture or profusion of decoration . You enter into a double arcade of pedestal'd ...
... imitation . " His few remarks are well worthy of consideration . ST . LAWRENCE " IN DAMASO . " - This church is not re- markable for the richness of its sculpture or profusion of decoration . You enter into a double arcade of pedestal'd ...
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... imitate , sometimes to combine and improve . Imitation , though not the aim , is the actual foundation of these two studies ; but how stands it with the architect ? Can you show me the originals of the component parts of architecture ...
... imitate , sometimes to combine and improve . Imitation , though not the aim , is the actual foundation of these two studies ; but how stands it with the architect ? Can you show me the originals of the component parts of architecture ...
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... imitate arm chairs and velvet so exactly as to deceive the eye , when they can no longer depict the physiognomy and expression of the man who is seated upon this arm- chair and this velvet . And yet , artists having once de- scended to ...
... imitate arm chairs and velvet so exactly as to deceive the eye , when they can no longer depict the physiognomy and expression of the man who is seated upon this arm- chair and this velvet . And yet , artists having once de- scended to ...
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... imitate the intertwinings of branches ; in all cases the mouldings which are tori and hollows , are cut through each other , the effect of mouldings , good if not too intricately crossed ; better when at angles , and not in curves ...
... imitate the intertwinings of branches ; in all cases the mouldings which are tori and hollows , are cut through each other , the effect of mouldings , good if not too intricately crossed ; better when at angles , and not in curves ...
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Page 177 - By its own weight made steadfast and immovable. 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.
Page 144 - It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo, but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the H erodes.
Page 157 - Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
Page 176 - Rock-rooted, stretched athwart the vacancy Its swinging boughs, to each inconstant blast Yielding one only response, at each pause, In most familiar cadence : with the howl, The thunder and the hiss of homeless streams Mingling its solemn song...
Page 177 - 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 157 - Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful.
Page 176 - Its stony jaws, the abrupt mountain breaks, And seems, with its accumulated crags, To overhang the world : for wide expand Beneath the wan stars and descending moon Islanded seas, blue mountains, mighty streams, Dim tracts and vast, robed in the lustrous gloom Of leaden-coloured even, and fiery hills Mingling their flames with twilight, on the verge Of the remote horizon.
Page 209 - Therefore does beauty, which, in relation to actions, as we have seen, comes unsought, and comes because it is unsought, remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect; and then again, in its turn, of the active power. Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.
Page 144 - Apollo ; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the Hercules. For perfect beauty in any species must combine all the characters which are beautiful in that species. It cannot consist in any one to the exclusion of the rest : no one, therefore, must be predominant, that no one may be deficient.