Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 8
... beauty as of temper- ance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , -a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the tongue on the balance of expression , ' a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of ...
... beauty as of temper- ance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , -a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the tongue on the balance of expression , ' a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of ...
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... beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Ĉivil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to ...
... beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Ĉivil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to ...
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... beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individua- lised , all private facts are to be generalised . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender ...
... beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individua- lised , all private facts are to be generalised . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender ...
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... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote ...
... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote ...
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... beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea , and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern fact , the sad self , unrelenting , identical , that I fled from . I seek the ...
... beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea , and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern fact , the sad self , unrelenting , identical , that I fled from . I seek the ...
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