Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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Page 17
... beauty , the perfect medium never over- stepping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , - the tongue on the balance of expression , " those forms in every action , at every age of life ...
... beauty , the perfect medium never over- stepping the limit of charming propriety and grace . Then we have it once more in sculpture , - the tongue on the balance of expression , " those forms in every action , at every age of life ...
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... beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , all must be ex- plained from individual history , or must remain words ...
... beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , all must be ex- plained from individual history , or must remain words ...
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... beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender ...
... beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender ...
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... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The in- quiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , the essence of virtue , and the essence of life , which we call Spontaneity ...
... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The in- quiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , the essence of virtue , and the essence of life , which we call Spontaneity ...
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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 , unrelent- ing , 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 , unrelent- ing , identical , that I fled from . I seek the ...
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