Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch ...
... nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch ...
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... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
... nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ? The soul knows them not , and genius , obeying its law ...
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... nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos ' entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . ' I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey , who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological ...
... nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos ' entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . ' I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey , who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological ...
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... nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , when art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual size , or neat ...
... nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , when art came to the assistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual size , or neat ...
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... nature , the per- fection of the senses of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms ...
... nature , the per- fection of the senses of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms ...
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