Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance 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 expres HISTORY . 19.
... once more in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance 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 expres HISTORY . 19.
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First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expres sion , " a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal seren- ity ; like votaries performing some religious ...
First series Ralph Waldo Emerson. sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expres sion , " a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal seren- ity ; like votaries performing some religious ...
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... sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages . What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought , as the ...
... sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages . What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought , as the ...
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... sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil 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 us , nothing that does not ...
... sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil 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 us , nothing that does not ...
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... sculpture in the memory is not with- out preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express our selves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which ...
... sculpture in the memory is not with- out preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express our selves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which ...
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