EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Page 10
... things , but Beauty is the creator of the universe . Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate , but is emperor in his own right . Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism , which assumes that manual skill and activity ...
... things , but Beauty is the creator of the universe . Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate , but is emperor in his own right . Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism , which assumes that manual skill and activity ...
Page 12
... a plant or an animal , it has an architecture of its own , and adorns nature with a new thing . The thought and the form are equal in the order of time , but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to 12 ESSAY I.
... a plant or an animal , it has an architecture of its own , and adorns nature with a new thing . The thought and the form are equal in the order of time , but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to 12 ESSAY I.
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... things , which becomes a new , and higher beauty , when expressed . Nature offers all her creatures to him as a ... Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed through images . " Things admit of being ...
... things , which becomes a new , and higher beauty , when expressed . Nature offers all her creatures to him as a ... Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed through images . " Things admit of being ...
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... play- ing of these things , would content him ; he loves the earnest of the north wind , of rain , of stone , and wood , and iron . A beauty not explicable , is dearer than a beauty which we can see to the 23 THE POET . 17.
... play- ing of these things , would content him ; he loves the earnest of the north wind , of rain , of stone , and wood , and iron . A beauty not explicable , is dearer than a beauty which we can see to the 23 THE POET . 17.
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... things , whereby the world is a temple , whose walls are covered with emblems , pictures , and commandments of the Deity , in this , that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature ; and the distinc- tions ...
... things , whereby the world is a temple , whose walls are covered with emblems , pictures , and commandments of the Deity , in this , that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature ; and the distinc- tions ...
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